I agree it's annoying (really bad for tooling), and what's more annoying is that for a human who understands how it works, there is no syntax as easy to read an

I agree it's annoying (really bad for tooling), and what's more annoying is that for a human who understands how it works, there is no syntax as easy to read and write as C declaration syntax. It's terse and intuitive, not adding new type syntax but reusing what already exists as expression syntax.