But simply turning it around to cards.shuffle().deal(4) isn't a good answer, it's still the case that you can only put a small number of things together in a chain because it stops making sense. If the next move was to start the game, "cards.shuffle().deal(4).startgame('some-card-game')" does not make sense because starting the game is not something the cards do, but "start(deal(shuffle(cards), 4), 'some-card-game')" can make sense because start is a function which takes a board state and a game to start. It describes the world state, not the cards and their abilities.
That is, neither style is right, but a mixed style where both approaches are available and you can mix and match to be more expressive, works much better, IMO. Chunking a small number of things with prefix into one operation, or with postfix into one operation, but combining those chunks flexibly at a larger scale.
Usually the languages either encourage cards.shuffle().deal(4) or deal(shuffle(cards),4).
In the 'noun-verb'/OOP version the sequence of modifications follows the english reading order where basically I only have to keep information about the last result in my head. The functional verb-noun version I have to pop in and out of layers: 'ok we're dealing what?, something shuffled, what are we shuffling?, the cards object/variable, ok we're dealing shuffled cards how many are we dealing? 4.'
In general the noun-verb follows the sequence of operations applied by the computer so it's easier to read.