13 year old kids figure it out. I was one of them, and I'm an idiot more days than I care to admit. Granted, it was 6502 assembly, but later I'd be able to sift my through x86, before it went completely nuts.

I think my motivation for learning 65C02 assembly back in the day was necessity. To take advantage of the Apple //e at any reasonable speed I had to. Besides 65C02 was simple, as was 16 bit x86. Things got a lot more complicated and the necessity went down.