Isn't that like telling someone with a problem in the car's ECU (electronic ignition) that it was easier back in the day when we had carburettors?
The whole point of technology is increasing leverage, we use C++ over C because it allows more structured and faster development, we use CubeIDE MX rather than coding each MCU´s varied internal registers by hand... the idea is to automate to be more productive, not to be able to boast that we're a "hard metal" programmer who knows the bits in every damned MCU´s DMA or UART register.
The objective here is to increase productivity, create ever more sophisticated machines, not go back to the horse.
I designed my first chip in 1982, assisted Motorola in getting their MC1378 video processor working, Intel their 82786 GPU working... their teams could build those chips, but no single engineer had a clear view how all the chip worked.
Focus, discipline and a lot of long hours, but today staff have gone soft IMHO, and I think that STM will underperform unless they get focused. Lets face in, the IDE is a sloppy app, lots of hacks and bugs, someone needs to call it IMO.
