Software development is a field with a lot of breadth and depth, and a lot of engineers do not regularly come into contact with things that are "far away" from them.

The other day I saw a comment on a forum about a videogame saying something along the lines of "an experienced programmer would wonder why there are two different compilers at work here".

The industry has expanded enough that we can have people with a decent amount of time spent programming without ever encountering things that other people with the same amount of time consider normal.

Importantly, it's vital people don't look down on engineers which don't work at the very lowest levels of abstraction. There is quite a lot of value gleaned from abstracting the electrons away.