I find the code quite more readable than longhand except for numeric groups like runway condition reports.
Our new planning software inserts line breaks for every new time group like "BCMG" or "FM" which makes for easier reading plus it shows these periods on a bar with the planned flight time superimposed, making it very easy to check whether a line is actually relevant for the flight. There's also some color coding with some conditions triggering amber and red conditions, but these often err on the cautious side when putting an airport in red because of morning fog that will be long gone until we arrive or just start the next morning (with long TAF).
NOTAM definitely need an overhaul and we should probably quit defaulting to the lowest common denominator because some country somewhere still uses an Edison-made telegraph or at least paper punch rolls to disperse NOTAM. The time is more than ripe for a NOTAM System that includes machine-readable coordinates / altitudes / times which can be shown on a map without a junior sailor dispatcher having to plot it. (Our system can plot but you have to enter/copy the data manually which makes it rather useless.). I had hoped for some action after the NTSB bashed the NOTAM system after the near miss (in ORD?)...