There is a lens through which this looks like assembly programmers bemoaning the advent of the compiler, and all these posers who only know high level languages

There is a lens through which this looks like assembly programmers bemoaning the advent of the compiler, and all these posers who only know high level languages and have no idea what’s going on inside the machine, have less control over memory and other low-level stuff. Not saying it’s wrong, but plenty of folks successfully program in high level languages, never knowing a single ISA at all.