68000 assembler was a delight to use, completely regular with lots of powerful instructions. I was lucky enough to write 68k software professionally for a whil

68000 assembler was a delight to use, completely regular with lots of powerful instructions. I was lucky enough to write 68k software professionally for a while (on the MVME147/167). However that was part of its downfall because it's hard to make a superscalar architecture when individual instructions have many complicated side effects. Also Intel just had way more money because of the mighty Wintel monopoly. They could scale up the manufacturing side.