Simple example: I love the ternary operator and use it quite a lot in simple "if/then" scenarios. However some people hate them because they consider them harder to read than the fully written out if/then form. Those people would judge my code less readable.
Ternary operators are better for expressions, which yield a result, since you don't have to declare or initialize a variable with a dummy value first. If/else is better for general branching. Using ternary without assigning or passing the expression would imho be misleading.
I've seen ternaries used for branching and it's a smell imho, they're not really meant for that use case.
