... in the title of this thread).
Well, I would remove the "especially ARM", but yes. And that's the point.

These are the typical micro*controller* applications, and usually any microcontroller can cope with them, so what's this fuzz about.

There are certainly tasks where computational power or large adressability is needed, but those are seldom *controller* applications.

The other side of coin is, that the semi makers want to sell SELL SELL SELL as much silicon as possible, and if it takes only talking the managerial types into it, why not. Notice, how nowadays everybody (including educated people) believes that asm is hard and C is easy - all it took was a decade of heavy pushing.

JW