More broadly, there's a lot of value in knowing how to work with constrained systems: things that have to be offline, or radiation-hardened, or low-power, or lo

More broadly, there's a lot of value in knowing how to work with constrained systems: things that have to be offline, or radiation-hardened, or low-power, or low-spec, etc. Those tend to be resilient systems; i.e., things that people can quietly rely on instead of being subject to "move fast and break things." Building web apps that you can update willy-nilly while running on arbitrarily powerful and always-available hardware isn't the entirety of software engineering.