I like all the stuff that D3 has, but it's all done through the most obnoxious cute chaining API. Why can't a low level library have simple, if more verbose, no

I like all the stuff that D3 has, but it's all done through the most obnoxious cute chaining API. Why can't a low level library have simple, if more verbose, normal function calls? I see that this thing doesn't try to solve the problem at all.