I see HTML as very easy to read but bothersome to type. You really can't compare the level of complexity of HTML vs. assembler or microcode, especially as HTML

I see HTML as very easy to read but bothersome to type. You really can't compare the level of complexity of HTML vs. assembler or microcode, especially as HTML has no control structures like a for, a while or a setjmp. Now, if HTML were not so easy to parse-at-a-glance, then you could had a point.