Only if that's how you were taught. For devs brought up in the FP manner, the for loop is as hard to grok as you find the chained stuff.
The Blub Paradox in action.
Plenty of them don’t like imperative loops, sure. But I’ve never seen someone assert that a simple loop is not intelligible to them while chaining functions are.
But that’s not the claim I was pushing back on. That claim was that, given a loop and some equivalent chained list-processing functions, primarily FP-taught people could not understand the loop due to their background. That’s bogus.
That complex loops are hard to understand for anyone is inarguable. But there’s not some magical “functional mindset” in which imperative/mutative code is unintelligible to the point of total obscurity and functional code is not. If there were, how would anything ever get rewritten in a functional style?