I can understand why newer languages have moved away from this style of declaration syntax, and moving away has brought merits such as becoming more intuitive to understand to novices, as well as better support for tooling / IDEs, including parsing performance gains.

On the other hand, nothing is quite so easy to read and write for me as the terse C declaration syntax (granted I don't declare a lot of pointers-to-functions-returning-pointers-to-functions).