a lot of people handwave the parenthesis and prefix notation as something you get used to, but it really is the thing that I think most people can't get a handle on.

There's a reason why DSPs and languages that look like a real languages are sought after - it makes conversion between business logic/requirements to code easier.

It makes maintenance easier - it's easy to make sure you made the right changes when the changes to your code looks like the changes to your business logic.