Depends what you’re optimising for. Are you optimising for readability - e.g. maybe you share shell history with team mates for example.

Or are you optimising for getting your thoughts transcribed to the machine as quickly as possible. It’s usually this case for me.

I tend to maintain a huge shell history so i really like the terse format for quickly filtering down my historical commands.

Writing shell scripts might be a good case for the longer form style although bourne-esque syntax is burned into my fingertips after all these years that long form is not going to be useful to me.