I have no tips, but I share the pain. My intuitive reaction when seeing an arrow is that it changes the text direction, and I do not give semantic meaning to the arrow direction. Iow, my brain essentially treats `a <- b` and `b -> a` identically.

This is the usual way that directional operators work in maths: comparisons, set membership and inclusion, implication (to be fair the symmetric version is rare enough), etc.