I agree with the author’s point that code is read far more often than it is written, and so we should prioritize readability by humans above other things by def

I agree with the author’s point that code is read far more often than it is written, and so we should prioritize readability by humans above other things by default. However I think the concrete examples given are misleading. I’m grateful for the explicit dependency imports at the top of a file even when they increase the number of symbols I have to parse. The alternative seems to be a scripting environment where I’m never sure which package has monkey patched the global “echo” by default.