Wow if you consider flatten gibberish I have nothing to say to you that can convince you..

Talking about bare metal and video games, take a peek at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Oriented_Assembly_Lisp

Mind you this guys are far above average, but you can't get more perf + low level than this.

I think in time you'll realize how nice other paradigms can be, even if they look alien for quite some time.