Completely agree with all of that, but I would add that even if you never have to write any assembly at all, just the ability to read your own code in disassembled form is a superpower. It's not hard to learn the basics and, in addition to the ability to debug performance issues, it will forever inoculate you against the "magic compiler" delusion and keep your code somewhat grounded when you actually see what any new abstraction actually turns into.
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