In my experience, people who struggle with different syntax conventions are the outliers; if you can handle the idea of brackets generally (as we all do regular

In my experience, people who struggle with different syntax conventions are the outliers; if you can handle the idea of brackets generally (as we all do regularly), then you can deal with one set of conventions. Similarly, if you can grasp the concept of a paragraph, or of bullet points, or a bunch of other things in normal text that convey meaning through whitespace, then you can deal with another. It's only code that (some) people complain about this with. In every other context, we all know that we can work with syntax based either on brackets or spacing. Just in normal communication, all humans deal with a dizzying array of complex conventions without even thinking about it. The reluctance to use whitespace-sensitive languages (or the other way around) is learned helplessness, rather than a widespread inadequacy.