It's easier to read pseudo-C than assembly, especially on an architecture you're not terribly familiar with. I can fire up an ARM decompiler (Hex-Rays) and be a

It's easier to read pseudo-C than assembly, especially on an architecture you're not terribly familiar with. I can fire up an ARM decompiler (Hex-Rays) and be able to do some basic RE work in minutes on an architecture I've never touched assembly for. It's also just plain faster to read, though the nice graph views for assembly do help you understand how loops and conditionals are really structured, it's still not as good as C.