Elixir is actually the easiest language to read (for me), once I knew it. You can make it difficult to follow if you want to, but when people are using it to pass around plain old data structures, it's very legible. Speaking only for myself. YMMV.
(author here) - I've also found this to be true. The most confounding aspects of elixir tend to be choices made to fit a square object into a round hole. For example, creating interfaces over functions so Hammox can mock them in your tests. It creates a lot of frustrating boilerplate and suddenly your actual code gets lost in the noise of indirection.
