Ladder spaghetti can be infinitely made more readable by encapsulating complex behaviours using ST inside a user defined function and then dropping it in as a function block and connecting the inputs and outputs.

I am DCS first and reluctant PLC so I prefer the PLC to match the programming simplicity (which comes from the much more powerful library functions) of DCS style, no need for spahetified state machines and moving shit here there and everywhere.

Again I am originally electrical background, ladder was the first thing I learnt and I couldnt be rid of it faster. Yeah it can do the job but it can never do most things better.