> As an anology: Most people wouldn't want to dig through machine code/compiler output. At least not without proper tooling.

My analogy is GUI builders from the late 90s that let you drag elements around, then generated a pile of code. They worked sometimes, but God help you if you wanted to do something the builder couldn't do, and had to edit the generated code.

Looking at compiler output is actually more pleasant. You profile your code, find the hot spots, and see that something isn't getting inlined, vectorized, etc. At that point you can either convince the compiler to do what you want or rewrite it by hand, and the task is self-contained.