Not that I want to encourage gatekeeping in the first place, but you'll have more success if you have a clue what the other person is talking about in the first

Not that I want to encourage gatekeeping in the first place, but you'll have more success if you have a clue what the other person is talking about in the first place (and some idea of what embedded looks like outside of tiny micros, and how the concerns about abstractions extend beyond matters of how much computational power is available).