Haskell is so much better at this, being completely pure and typed throughout, and is even more fun and powerful than APL; I've used it to write a lot of small and medium-sized projects, prototype LLVM Flang's parser to prove the concept of using parser combinators for Fortran, and do Advent of Code each year in a few hundred lines of code total. If you like APL, try Haskell.
Today, I think that the whole "notation as a tool of thought" aspect of APL is a rationalization for excessive brevity -- which can be a good way to demonstrate the power of composition, but which can work against clarity.