I concur with the author. When I write CoffeeScript I often use a more explicit or more c-like style for things I find ridiculously ambiguous or hard to parse when reading quickly.

Particularly, if one line has lots of commas, I put parens all over the place because no matter what I do, having to manually parse the comma arrangements and figure out what's nested and what's a function does not go quickly. I also find myself writing explicit returns somewhat frequently just so it's much more clear what's being returned.

The overarching issue is that the syntax blurs rather than pops -- there are too many instances where things that are significantly different in function look nearly the same.