I feel comparing knowing assembly to knowing about NAT/Subnets/Gateway is a false equivalency. Outside of a small set of folks most devs need NOT know assembly

I feel comparing knowing assembly to knowing about NAT/Subnets/Gateway is a false equivalency. Outside of a small set of folks most devs need NOT know assembly due to compilers being very good at converting to assembly. Not the same Subnet/Gateway/NAT. These are first class constructs in most cloud developments and has huge implications on security, performance and costs. Unless you have some kind of automated way that abstracts away these issues (akin to compilers) most devops folks would need to learn about these concepts while working in a cloud environment.