The reviewer wants better and more syntax sugar than actually implementing better logic.

That's the little difference between "that's bad" and "i would make it differently".

See it as a compliment, there's obviously nothing worse to comment.

Technically speaking, syntactic sugar improves long term maintainability by helping with readability, I'd say this is legit if the product is for the long haul. Take it as a compliment that the logic behind your code is already optimal(:

Readability is one of the most important things about your code.

guys, we all know readability is important.

I use syntax sugar a lot. but anything has a limit.

overly use syntax sugar which might concatinate the code together sometimes will make the code actually harder to read. harder to debug thus harder to maintain.

im from a world of javascript so...