Such variable threading tends to be harder to skim through in production code, the intermediates become noise that's harder to filter out than a repeated symbol

Such variable threading tends to be harder to skim through in production code, the intermediates become noise that's harder to filter out than a repeated symbol like |>. Preferably you should also be sure that the functions are compatible with the data type going in and only rarely have to break it to dump data mid-chain. If you expect that kind of erroring it's likely a builder-chain with -> is a better alternative and do logging in the methods.