Maybe that's true --- it certainly is for me --- but since this is quantum computing, I wouldn't expect to just understand this code without at least some background in QM.
"Everything is hard before it is easy."
But, I'm a curious individual. I'd love if the academic Python community (to try to put a label on it) would all write code that was "idomatic". I know that "idomatic" is a problmatic term, but specifically I'm asking for people to follow PEP-8 and generally follow the ethos of `import this`.
Once we're speaking a common vernacular, we can better share ideas.
My experience with most other researchers' code is that taking the logic and rewriting the code is more efficient than trying to fix the code they've shown you. But they deserve respect for not evangelising formatting over function -- a form of respect I cannot extend to you.