Major syntax changes in 0.1.4

I'm excited for this language, love some of the design choices around error handling, choices, etc, but 0.1.4 is a bit of a head scratcher for me.

Any particular reason for the major syntax change, pretty much overnight? Of course a lot of this is personal preference, but the earlier syntax with curly braces, explicit -> Void returns, raises as keyword instead of !, etc, were much more human readable (to me). Polish notation is especially baffling to me, makes it feel like more of a research languege rather than a mainstream one.

I understand that the new version is more token-efficient, and possibly easier on the parser, but if I'm doing human-in-the-loop coding (which seems to be a target for this language) the cost of decyphering the new syntax seems more expensive than whatever I would save in tokens.

This reads well to me, each part serves an obvious function:

pub fun main(world: World) -> Void raises {
    let message = "hello from a binding\n"
    check world.out.write(message)
}

This less so:

pub fn main Void world World !
  let message "hello from a binding\n"
  check world.out.write message

I feel this leaves a lot of work to the reader, having to reconstruct meaning from precedence rather than relying on well understood signs like =, ->, name: Type format, etc.

Of course a lot of this comes from my limited background in Lisp like / functional languages, and personal preference in general, but I can't help but feel less excited about the language due to the new syntax.