“It just feels readable”. -> “It looks like this other language I know.”
But: that language might be English (or other natural language). Which is to say maybe computer languages are leveraging the human "language faculty" and rightly so. Which may mean that some languages are always going to feel more foreign.
Considering how many programmers will tell you that C style semicolons and curly braces are more readable than using keywords, I think they've got a point
At some extremes yes but, for example, I've spent at least twice as much time programming C and C+ than I have with Python but I still find Python generally more readable. Maybe if the ratio were 100 to 1 instead of 2 to 1 I'd feel differently but that suggests there are actually intrinsic differences in readability apart from just familiarity.
But: that language might be English (or other natural language). Which is to say maybe computer languages are leveraging the human "language faculty" and rightly so. Which may mean that some languages are always going to feel more foreign.