Software engineers seem to be more and more abstracted from the hardware they use. You also (rarely) back in the day had to worry about things like IRQ ports an

Software engineers seem to be more and more abstracted from the hardware they use. You also (rarely) back in the day had to worry about things like IRQ ports and optimising for tiny amounts of latency. Personally I am fine with programmers not spending tons of time optimising down to every last piece because we do have so much more ram and compute relative to the old days. My bigger issue is that things are also a laggy mess even when there is plenty of resources available. I understand these things go hand in hand but I would much rather see more optimisations for the things users will actually notice than just going for metrics. A nice combo of the two would be ideal. That being said what's probably most appalling is the amount some modern programs hard crash even when they have plenty of resources.