I say that because other languages like Java, have a simple syntax

That doesn't make Java code any simpler. The complexity has to come out somewhere. How long do you think does it take an average programmer to get a full grasp on all the subtleties of that byzantine class library of Java? How much good is it if you can read someone else's code and know what operations happen, if you don't really know what it does because you need to go look up two dozen methods and properties in about half as many classes before you know what it's all really about?