I actually prefer no syntax highlighting, and I certainly wouldn't make any claims about it being useful. But something being "useful" is often personal - I find IDEs useful, others find Vim useful, maybe one is better or worse than the other or maybe we're all different and our brains function in different ways and that explains the difference.
With assembly versus say, Go for writing a web server? That's trivially observable, good luck arguing against that one.
With assembly versus say, Go for writing a web server? That's trivially observable, good luck arguing against that one.