I think it's another example of the different ways people understand (I don't want to call it "reading") code: "textually" or "visually".
I suspect the same subset of people find lisp, coffescript or yaml readable, with the same drive of removing everything that isn't "words" from the code (useless noise!). The punctuation doesn't let them read the code as a text, I guess? and they only build the structure of the code in their heads after a "linear pass" through the code?
While myself and others like me are very happy with all the punctuation that makes the structure jump out to us at literal first sight. I build the structure first in my head and fill in the "words" later.
I made it sound all neutral-like and all, but it's not, my way is certainly much better. Learn to grok code visually, it's better.