Of course, it's not 100% subjective - rarely anything in the world is 100% anything. But I think that most people consider their personal preferences to be bet

Of course, it's not 100% subjective - rarely anything in the world is 100% anything. But I think that most people consider their personal preferences to be better and more readable just because they're used to them, so I tend to take the opposite attitude as the starting point. There were more than a few situations where I've had a coworker tell me "just read the code, it's very readable", only to spend the next two weeks just trying to figure out how it works. Sure, once you figure out how it works and it "clicks", it's no longer (that) unreadable, but the fact that I have to spend so much time reading the codebase in the first place made me convinced that personal familiarity is a great part of what "readable" means.