Curious about decorator syntax

[rjdegraff42]

My initial question, which we seem to have gotten away from, was why the original format was chosen when a more consistent, concise, and clear form is available. So far, nobody has been able to explain why the less clear forms are desirable. I'm not telling anyone that my way is better. I'd just like to know why it isn't. Instead I'm getting vague answers and suggestions to implement it myself. Or to just learn to do it the existing way. If everyone thought like that we would all still be coding in Python 2.x. If everyone thought "because that's the way we've always done it" we wouldn't have Python at all.