Lots of people “like” things because they are familiar with them. And that’s a fine enough reason. But if you step out of your zone of familiarity, can you find improvements? Are you willing to forgo any prejudice you may possess to evaluate other suggestions?

Just a little willingness to see another perspective is all anyone asks.

Funnily enough, if you pull up a version of Postgres' parser prior to the 1995 release, you'll find that it puts the relation first.

No one was confused what you were doing.

I'm saying the historical reason for why it is the way it is, doesn't matter. I would hope we design our languages to be maximally clear and useful, not to be maximally full of historical cruft.

There's no accounting for taste, so you're welcome to like whatever you like, but I don't think you liking a backward syntax is particularly persuasive. It sounds more like you're just used to it than that you see any actual benefits to it.