While I personally agree, I think the bar for readability gets slowly lowered over time. In the Typescript/JavaScript world a for loop used to be (and still is

While I personally agree, I think the bar for readability gets slowly lowered over time. In the Typescript/JavaScript world a for loop used to be (and still is to some) considered more readable than using the functional array functions. Our reasoning for readability is usually based on what the average programmer is able to read, so the more programmers get used to dense syntax the more readable it is. There's rarely any "real argument" to be had for or against readability. Haskell and other languages that are inspired by math look very noisy to me, but at the same time I understand that math people don't agree.