Large Scale Assembly puts a huge premium on planning and design. If you try to just bang things out, you'll live in a world of pain.

Remember, simple is not the same easy

Well.

Don't try to write "good" go and it becomes easy too.

I would rather see clearly defined, readable, documented code that isnt optimal... than good code lacking any of those traits.

And good code often isnt clearly defined, it often isn't reader friendly and it often lacks documentation (this bit is fixable but ends up needing a lot more of it).

Bad code that works isnt bad.