Sometimes you are expressing a specialized concept that, even when translated into words, won't be readily understood by someone without domain knowledge. That's when I believe symbols are very useful.

In this case we are dealing with an applicative functor. If you know what's an applicative functor, you will immediately know what these symbols mean. If you do not, even if we translate <* as `sequenceActionsKeepFirstValue` you still don't know what this is doing.