I think it's the performative aspects that are grating, though. You're right that even many systems programmers only look at the generated assembly occasionally, but at least most of them have the good sense to respect the deeper knowledge of mechanism that is to be found there, and many strive to know more eventually. Totally orthogonal to whether writing assembly at scale is sensible practice or not.
But with the AI tools we're not yet at the wave of "sometimes it's good to read the code" virtue signaling blog posts that will make front page next year or so, and still at the "I'm the new hot shit because I don't read code" moment, which is all a bit hard to take.