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I never said that the 6502 was good. I was questioning you calling it weird as if it was uncommon, when it wasn't, because it was one of the most popular chips in its era.
Many say that the x86 architecture is awful. But to say that it's weird would be quite the stretch.
It's weird in the sense that software development has moved in other directions. A tagged-architecture stack machine like the Burroughs Large System is weird as well, even though it's been highly successful and very influential on later designs (eg. Forth, SmallTalk).
If we'd still be using bank switching and overlays I'd say learning to code assembly on a 6502 is a great introduction to modern computers, but we're not so it's not.