This, and the prefix nature of operators. That's the primary reason every time I try to give Lisp a chance, I get turned off by the maze of parens that I have to unravel in my head, especially for long, nested calls.
For Lispers, good for them on knowing how to wire their brains to read this effortlessly. For the rest of us, there's a reason why Python's syntax is so easy to read for most people.
Yeah it helps if it is properly formatted and intended to be easy to read. Style takes effort. A lot of us let emacs handle the formatting - auto indent and something like paredit to move lists around. Once you get a feel for how the tools move things it is a bit easier to predict, but even then it takes someone putting in effort to make it maximally readable.
For Lispers, good for them on knowing how to wire their brains to read this effortlessly. For the rest of us, there's a reason why Python's syntax is so easy to read for most people.