I think it is more about education, the way "we" study/teach programming than an intrinsecally problem about paradigms. I personally find the query syntax better and I am not working as a developer "anymore". I would say that is a matter of taste and education. Related [1]. Personally, I look for simple and clear syntaxes and don't have a problem switching from one programming language to another while the focus in the solution is clear.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/csharp/comments/w7n11s/why_does_the...