Application vs Theory of Programming/CS

Hi, nice board/beard you got there.

What do you guys think of the state of CS/programming in general and in academia?

Although SICP is great and such for theory and an intro to functional programming, yet it does not cover how code works on a machine code level basis.

Theoretical computer science has turned into a dumbed down version of selected theoretical mathematics minus the framework of electrical engineering that should be around it.

How many programmers that ``optimize'' their code, optimize it consciously thinking about how their code works on a circuit, diode, or resistor level of logic?

I don't see any use of companies like Intel or AMD releasing fancier and fancier shit if no one is even going to take full advantage of the new technological improvement that they are supplying.

I'm inclined to say that education should be pushed further in that theoretical direction. CS students should be required to take more writing or literature classes. Learning to read and write well is probably more valuable to programmers in terms of both application and theory than learning some technical details about a specific hardware implementation.