I agree that lets-ASM has been wrong in most cases. However misguided in many cases it may be, in this context it's serving a more pressing problem than the let

I agree that lets-ASM has been wrong in most cases. However misguided in many cases it may be, in this context it's serving a more pressing problem than the lets-ASM mentality because there is a real security problem with most code that can be solved with different language+tooling and is only insecure because of historical popularity reasons like the rise of C in the 1980s.