I think it's probably more like trying to understand machine code written by very short-sighted programmer, on an arcitecture that you're unfamiliar with, for w

I think it's probably more like trying to understand machine code written by very short-sighted programmer, on an arcitecture that you're unfamiliar with, for which no documentation exists, and which you don't have access to for testing purposes. I think that's an interesting problem, regardless of the quality of the code.