Comment by Lerc

>You're assuming that the asm syntax is targeted at human readability, when it's at least as much to ease the complexity of the assembler and disassembler.

I think you misunderstand my meaning. I know why things are like this. I was musing on the consequences of that. When the target moved aware from human readability then it also actively discourages human attention, lessening the chance of innovation. In my own work, I have always thought that maximising the general utility of things is better than targeting a 'use case' so that others might come up with ideas for use that I hadn't considered.

A worrying thought is that companies might be motivated to discourage innovation outside of their own control.