Writing X86 assembly is painful, writing aarch64 or RISC-V assembly is easy and fun. That, and everything is fast nowadays. Even microcontrollers are hundreds o

Writing X86 assembly is painful, writing aarch64 or RISC-V assembly is easy and fun. That, and everything is fast nowadays. Even microcontrollers are hundreds of MHz with huge memories. There's very little pressure to increase high-end performance, a lot of pressure to make more software.