Have you ever tried contributing to an open-source project or even worked on a large code base with neck-breaking documentation? If you have done any of these, you would at least know the benefits of a readable language.
Sometimes, it is not even the programmers fault, your language just sucks; you’ve got multiple derefs here and there, or you have some piece of code that you can’t predict response type until runtime, and much more.
I believe Rust has to be the most readable language there is right now, arguably.

Here’s Why I Think Rust Is the Most Readable Language