True. Does this have anything to do with the way programming is taught, most of the times starting with imperative then with OOP ?
ideographic writing is more complex and less composable than phonetic writing and yet can express the same ideas.
Subjectively, a chinese can understand Chinese ideograms while maybe he find written English difficult to understand. But a Chinese would learn phonetic writing in less time than ideographic writing and would be capable to express complex ideas using the most composable writing system in less time, no doubt.