> your example is less readable for me. not by a lot, but still

Agree, but I wonder how much of that is just the lack of colouring. My brain is suuuuper hard wired to expect all the special keywords to be identified that way as well as by case.

Mostly I'm a caps guy because my ahk scripts expand text like "ssf","w" and "gb"* to be the way I learned to write them at first.