You're not alone; those long chains are annoying to decipher. The other benefit of what you wrote is that if you have to track down a bug in the chain, you can

You're not alone; those long chains are annoying to decipher. The other benefit of what you wrote is that if you have to track down a bug in the chain, you can actually examine the intermediate variables directly instead of having to pick apart a long chain so that a variable is exposed for you to look at in the debugger.