I don't think any individual needs to be an assembly expert, but as a community developers still need some people to be assembly experts.
Our systems will rot without people to maintain them, the AI aren't infallable yet.
The greater worry isn't that the general user will let mostly defunct skills rot, it's that we need a path to raise the next generation of experts in these niche skills.
Oh, do not you worry, that path is called SNES emulators and teen crackers reverse engineering new releases' product activation loops. Curious teens are a staple of civilization.
Our systems will rot without people to maintain them, the AI aren't infallable yet.
The greater worry isn't that the general user will let mostly defunct skills rot, it's that we need a path to raise the next generation of experts in these niche skills.