Yes, one usually needs to "intuit" the meaning when there are mixes of subscripts/superscripts/parameters, assumed definitions, mixes of variable naming conventions, the order of function arguments randomly adjusted to taste, invented symbols and syntaxes.

Since no machine is ever going to read it, it's all up to individual taste and prejudice.

How would a math linter work? Don't see it, but this is one of the things that makes maths a different world from programming.