[uticus]

Philosophically this is a fair point but practically it is not. Eventually any programmer will start relying more and more on tools to help with skim/read/comprehend code bases, no matter the language. There's a reason that every text editor and IDE used for programming includes helpers to find subroutine calls, jump to matching symbol (curly braces, closing parenthesis, end statement, or tab-depth indicator), etc, etc. No language is so "easy to skim/read and comprehend" that you'd be happy with a realistically significant code base and only the navigation keys on your keyboard.

There's a very fine line between nice language syntax and ease of use via tools you use to interact with the language (with APL-influenced languages being the only exception I can think of, but even there I've heard of programmers having physical key map symbols overlaid on keyboards).