That's kind of how I feel about C. C is fun, because you get to see "everything"

But C is slow to create -- it is like using a toothpick

Writing from scratch is slow, and using C libraries also sucks. Certainly libc sucks, e.g. returning pointers to static buffers, global vars for Unicode, etc.

So yeah I have never written Assembly that anybody needs to work, but I think of it as "next level slow"

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Probably the main case where C is nice is where you are working for a company that has developed high quality infrastructure over decades. And I doubt there is any such company in existence for Assembly