I sort of found it ugly, before getting used to the syntax. A lot of the feeling of ugliness of a code comes from the unfamiliarity of the syntax.

I had the same problem with Rust, especially with the lifetime syntax; all these ' in random places just made a feeling of unevenness. But when your brain starts to have a deeper understanding on the construct, it processes things differently and the structure of the code comes at you in a clear way (when the code itself is not some crap by itself, of course). Beautiful code is clear code.