[zmmmmm]

it's interesting I completely agree with you and it's a big reason I find Python irritating to write (compared to Groovy, Kotlin, Ruby, etc). However there do seem to be a lot of people that dislike this method chaining style and will assert that functional style is better in every way. But I just can't fundamentally agree that writing these as functions is as readable.

Even if you go far out of your way to format it similarly, it still forces you to do a lot of mental work to see the inner most starting point and then deduce what the sequence of operations that happens is backwards, eg:

   foo(
      min(
           map(lambda x: ...,
               filter(lambda: y: ....,
                     baz(bar)
              )
          )
       )

(and of course, the python linters are typically configured to hate this so you can't realistically write it this way even if you want to)