Well, for people who are ridiculing the absurdity, note that it's software engineering at Google, not software engineering. One's peculiarities are another absurdity. Reserve judgement, and try to understand the rationale.
Hmm, I am getting a sense that modern engineers shows a sign of losing touch to computer science theoretical foundation.
It's not funny game. It's part of abstraction hierarchy and physical computing model vs. programming language computing model.
It's only funny because one would presume that there ever was a time the hardware was not playing "funny" game.
And no, it always has a giant abstraction gap between hierarchy, and that's a fundamental part of modern electronic computing. One shall allow oneself to learn those and get used to how things are actually working.