I don't know APL, but that has been my thought as well - if APL does not offer much over numpy, I'd argue that the I'd argue that later is much easier to read and reason through.

If you acquire fluency in APL -- which granted takes more time than acquiring fluency in numpy -- numpy will feel bloated and ungainly. With that said, it's mostly an aesthetic difference and there are plenty of practical advantages to numpy (the main one being there is no barrier to entry, and pretty much everyone already knows python).

I thought that too, but after a while the symbols becomes recognizable (just like math symbols) and then it's a pleasure to write if you have completion based on their name (Uiua developer experience with Emacs). The issue with numpy is the intermediate variables you have to use due to using Python.