If you want to build electronics, such as your proposed 12-volt buck-boost converter, you'll find your job immensely easier if you can build them with microcont

If you want to build electronics, such as your proposed 12-volt buck-boost converter, you'll find your job immensely easier if you can build them with microcontrollers. That goes double for test equipment. So I don't think it misses the point for that reason.