Baking a cake is like being a compiler and a processor for recipe instructions. Of course it seems awkward from the perspective of a human baker because before you can process/bake you have to "compile" the expression to procedural steps. The computer does that without complaint.
This may illustrate that humans aren't good compilers of functional code, or in particular that humans aren't good at parsing poorly formatted functional code (again, computer parsers don't care about formatting). But I don't think it indicates that functional code isn't good for reading and writing, even for the same humans.
I also don't think this recipe resembles FP. Where are the functions and their arguments? There is no visible hieararchy. It is unnecessarily obtuse in the first place.
This may illustrate that humans aren't good compilers of functional code, or in particular that humans aren't good at parsing poorly formatted functional code (again, computer parsers don't care about formatting). But I don't think it indicates that functional code isn't good for reading and writing, even for the same humans.
I also don't think this recipe resembles FP. Where are the functions and their arguments? There is no visible hieararchy. It is unnecessarily obtuse in the first place.