This is pretty sad, but a lot of students tend to be only interested in whatever is applicable to the job market of present day. However, even students do need

This is pretty sad, but a lot of students tend to be only interested in whatever is applicable to the job market of present day. However, even students do need assembly language when they take their computer architecture, operating systems and compilers classes. And some students will probably end up to do compilers or operating system work professionally at some point in their careers. Assembly language is still a very valuable skill although a few people will ever write any code by hand. But reading assembly code as well as writing programs that emit assembly code will always stay relevant.