[JoeAltmaier]

Assembly may not be simple, as in 'very little language'. Assembly can be thousands of different language elements. But assembly is simple as in 'very little variation'. There are maybe a dozen addressing modes. There may be 100 or more instructions. When you multiply them, you get large manuals.

And assembly is simple as in 'primitive'. The atoms of assembler are instructions, and even they may be clustered into only a few groups i.e. arithmetic, branch.

I find the resistance to learning assembler is mostly fear. When debugging I very often resort to assembler display, even for machines that I'm not familiar with. I can learn the gist of it in a few minutes just by looking at a little generated code. And there's nothing like the actual machine instructions to find what really caused an exception.