Interesting! Was there anything that you think came out significantly better than if you had written it in, say, C or Rust?
In practice though, it looks closer to C/ASM. The author even wrote comments in C. This is the first time I've looked at an actual program written in the wasm text format and it's pretty interesting to see how one would actually use it. Very neat.
That being said there is definitely a benefit to writing in any assembly language that it imposes a discipline on the programmer, that is just as true for WAT, whenever you access data you are thinking about where it is stored, how it is loaded etc.