Definitely! I'd say we need more people like that (although for obvious security reasons, I'd personally prefer the use a safer lang than C/C++). But we also different people who don't care about performance or integration, but have unique ideas that are worth exploring. Let them experiment and quickly iterate using the easiest most high-level tools we have, then let the GPU magicians rewrite and optimize their work for production.

The best progress happens when you have both of these groups, not just one. As well as some application development plebs like myself (jk) to allow end users to benefit from all of that progress.