> There is more than enough headroom to make interpretation a viable model for micro controllers, and there is hardly a better way to make the technology more accessible to beginners.

Making tech accessible to beginners is a fair point.

But I don't really buy the headroom argument: There's always the case to use as few resources as possible when it comes to embedded (the micro controller kind of stuff): Power usage. The less overhead your software stack creates the less power your always on/battery powered device will consume.