The problem with this statement is that it assumes parsing-easiness as something universal, and stable. And this is certainly not true. You may believe syntax A

The problem with this statement is that it assumes parsing-easiness as something universal, and stable. And this is certainly not true. You may believe syntax A is so much easier simply because it's the syntax you have been dealing with most of your career thus your brain is trained for it. On top of it a particular task can make a lot of difference: most people would agree that regex is simplification versus writing the same logic in usual if-then way for pattern matching in strings, but I'm not sure many would like to have their whole programs looking that way (but even that could be subjective, see APL).