Then why do I greatly prefer reading code snippets over language in basically every setting that software is involved in? I say this as a hyper verbal person (ie: much of my internal world is dominated by language and I could never shut the fuck up as a kid, or today, really)

I don't think any one form is close to my thought and I can definitely say diagrams and code often sit closer to how I think about systems than language.

I also think articulation is also a separate skill. I've met brilliant people that weren't great writers but that doesn't stop them from designing and understanding or building complex things with great accuracy