Comment by psychoslave

No, with chained methods it's just as easy to move step by step in each method, and even in bodies of anonymous functions that you might pass as parameter. At least with a decent contemporary IDE and debugger.

The reason code is terser is because it forces to streamline the process to a single output at a time, rather than an unrestricted number of variable control flow and return combined in a way that is easy to accumulate but all the more complicated to grasp later on.