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100% this.
This false premise is also why a few (objectively wrong) people defend writing long essays: functions with hundreds of lines and files with thousands; saying "then you don't have to go back and forth to read it", when in fact, no one should be reading it like a novel in the first place.
Once you get used with list and dict comprehensions, they read just fine. Much like the functional approach is not really that readable for a newcomer either.
The blog post wasn't about reading, but about writing. And people usually do write top-to-bottom, left-to-right.
The whole point of the blog post was to write code that the IDE can help you with when writing. It didn't go into readability even once.
the last section before the conclusion only mentions readability
What about all the other sections?