All C-derived languages (e.g. Java and Rust) have a bad syntax, with tons of superfluous parentheses and many other superfluous tokens, like semicolons or commas.

This normally matters very little, because a good editor will always insert a complete template whenever you type something like "if", "for", "while" etc.

Most programmers are blind to the syntax defects with which they are accustomed and they notice only the syntax defects with which they are unfamiliar.

I would prefer a language with a good syntax, but unfortunately which programming languages have survived in widespread use has a poor correlation with the technical qualities of a language and especially a really negligible correlation with how good its syntax was.