I never understood the need for names for movabsq. The top comment on this HN discussion is about how this is all a historical quirk, people wanting to get a jo

I never understood the need for names for movabsq. The top comment on this HN discussion is about how this is all a historical quirk, people wanting to get a job done quick and dirty. But movabsq is a new instruction introduced only with x86-64 (then known as AMD64). With the 64-bit transition why didn't they take the opportunity to clean up and reorganize this mess?