We are all writing assembly. There are just increasingly powerful levers between us and the assembly. That's why sticking with a technology for so long is power

We are all writing assembly. There are just increasingly powerful levers between us and the assembly. That's why sticking with a technology for so long is powerful - the advances in tooling keep compounding. Imagine if we switched to a completely different paradigm every few years and had to start compiler research over from scratch.