This almost feels like an argument that we should teach computer science via bare metal bootstrapping. Start out at "here's your machine code. Let's understand

This almost feels like an argument that we should teach computer science via bare metal bootstrapping. Start out at "here's your machine code. Let's understand how x86_64 gets started" and work your way up to "now you have the automation to compile Linux and a modern compiler". Which would certainly have stops most of the way up for things we usually include.