I came to a similar conclusion about how some people strive to reduce what they call "visual noise" on their programming languages, by removing things like semicolons, parentheses, curly braces, etc. and others, like myself, who like the punctuation.

I think I read code visually. I understand its literal 2D-visual shape first, and use punctuation as visual markers to help me along. Then I backfill the gaps in the structure with the actual "content" of the code.

For the longest time I was baffled by the other camp's attempts to get rid of punctuation. What are they thinking? I now believe what they're thinking is of code as linear text. If you read the code linearly first, as text, and build the structure in your head as you go then yeah, all; of(that) seems {kinda} pointless && annoying.

Now guess which camp is more likely to write blog posts about how theirs is the One True Way? Ah, the humanity.