It's not far fetched. Microcontroller programming should not be seen as magic.
And microcontrollers will never get abundant capacity because smaller and more efficient means less battery, no matter the tech level.
So it's not like "everyone should know the history of the PDP-11" which I would disagree with.
During my schooling we built traffic lights and stuff on tiny machines, and even in VHDL, even though desktop machines were hundreds of MHz. They both have a place still.
And microcontrollers will never get abundant capacity because smaller and more efficient means less battery, no matter the tech level.
So it's not like "everyone should know the history of the PDP-11" which I would disagree with.
During my schooling we built traffic lights and stuff on tiny machines, and even in VHDL, even though desktop machines were hundreds of MHz. They both have a place still.