Fewer programmers interested in hardware?

I see far too many programmers these days who use macbooks and prebuilt desktops. They've never assembled a computer or installed a different OS. Why is this? I thought programmers were interested in tinkering with things. I feel more and more like I'm out of place when I talk about how I assemble and overclock computers and install GNU/Linux distros.

Modern C/C++ compilers are so optimized that’s almost impossible to a human to write a better code that generated by the compiler. That’s why the Vala language transpile to C with GObject and not directly in machine code.