It's a lot less readable to me. The dot version exactly matches my thinking - take this object and transform it with parameters a, b, c and then transform the

It's a lot less readable to me. The dot version exactly matches my thinking - take this object and transform it with parameters a, b, c and then transform the result again. When you have an object that you apply a series of transformations to, it's natural to describe the process in chronological order.