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I don't really find this argument convincing. You don't need to know how to build a car from first principles to drive one. If you're into it, sure, it can be fun and teach you plenty about its failure modes, the scary things as you put it, but most people really don't need nor want to go into that detail.

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This is nowhere close, nowhere near close, not even within the same 100 mile radius close, of first principles.

This is literally starting from `man ld` and going one step further. The manual literally starts with a `man ld` printout and then goes to describe it from concepts onwards.

If you want first principles we can try to maybe start the discussion at maxwell's equations and take it a handful of hundred steps from there until we arrive at how logic gates, diodes and transistors work.

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