Depends on one's reference point. A lot of people in the web development world (for example) would probably consider manual memory management to be an advanced

Depends on one's reference point. A lot of people in the web development world (for example) would probably consider manual memory management to be an advanced topic, because typically they've "grown up" with languages where memory management was so removed or abstracted as to be almost irrelevant beyond trivial "do I have enough RAM to hold this array?" type concerns.