I think I only started to really hate it when I had to deal with some Python code where people decided to nest them and made a really hard to read mess where they should have used just a normal if-else chain. A Rust style if-expression would be better IMO, but it was Python code.

On a more basic level, I just don't see any good reason to put the condition in the middle.

Lisp: `(if <cond> <then> <else>)` Haskell: `if <cond> then <then> else <else>` Rust: `if <cond> { <then> } else { <else> }`

All the above read fine and normal. In the python version the order of execution is different then the left-to-right reading order.

It's not like it's a fatal flaw for a language to do it like Python. But it is just silly IMO. My POV is that I actually really like if-expressions, but hate the condition-in-the-middle syntax, so I tend to avoid it unless it's really short. When code changes slightly and becomes longer I'd rather not have to always double take if this now should change to an if-statment or to an expression etc.