Of course, we can probably agree that most of the straight-to-AI-skip-the-Assembler devs would probably not be able to understand the fundamentals, so I guess it's an irrelevant point I'm making.

At any rate, it reminds me of how "everyone could build their own website" back in the 90s. In the end, building the best websites is actually really, really hard because it requires a lot of intuition and maintenance, and better tools just made the best devs even bester, and they focused on building on the tools.