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Good news, it will look like it came out of a beginners book, as the pipe operator gets added to beginners books. Just like arrow functions.

Your argument at this point is "I don't like it because it's new."

You should possibly instead argue on the merits of what it is.

Simple syntax, and straightforward behavior.

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Simple syntax, like how '=>' is a two-character ASCII art 'fat arrow', and not anything to do with logical equivalence. That's how you syntax for beginners!

Eh, programming re-uses tons of punctuation a beginner needs to learn anyways. Semicolons don't split sentences, parathesis change depending on where it's used, commas seem random.

This concept even gets generalized itself with the concept of operator overloading in some languages, etc.

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