Those that are fluent in a programming language have merely become accustomed to the unpleasantness and it makes sense for them. There are people which genuinely think that complex mathematical notation can be beautiful, but that opinion's not shared by most humans.
In other words, there's beauty, and there's acquired taste and it's legitimate to point out this difference.
> There are people which genuinely think that complex mathematical notation can be beautiful, but that opinion's not shared by most humans.
Most humans frankly don't understand what's needed to capture complex mathematical concepts, so that's not at all surprising. The same argument can be applied to your objection to syntax, and this merely reiterates the OP's point: until you're fluent in a particular language, you have no idea whether the syntax is necessitated by some complex but necessary semantics that you simply don't know about.
In other words, there's beauty, and there's acquired taste and it's legitimate to point out this difference.