I thought the same thing once, until I actually sat down and tried to learn Erlang. It turns out that a lot of the decisions that I originally thought were asinine, actually make a lot of sense.
Line terminators for example (, ; .) tend to receive a lot of flak, but they really aren't as crazy as they first seem. Commas come after normal lines of code (you can read them as and), semicolons come at the end of clauses in if or case statements (and you can read them as or), and periods mark the end of a function. It's a little more verbose than something like Javascript or Ruby, but it really isn't as confusing as critics tend to claim!
In the end, even as somebody who cares about the look of code a lot, it doesn't matter to me. The BEAM and OTP are elegant enough to compensate for any syntax.
Would you care to elaborate which parts you consider to be "gobbledegook"? The code supplied is just a few lines of code.
I don't know how familiar are you with the language, but the magical aspect of it will quickly disappear once your learn a few OTP patterns.
I personally started initially with Erlang, but when I discovered Elixir, I switched, as I found it way more pleasurable.
Python and Elixir are actually the only two languages that make me happy when writing code, and I've tried quite a few of them, from C all the way to Haskell.