Broken GMIC Tutorial Code?

Hmmmm… blunt. Let’s go blunt for blunt and see where that goes?
Perhaps this is childish of me but… YAY! What’s life without opinions on the internet?

If escaping individual characters in a long and confusing parameter is the cause of looking bad (ie. I guess I look bad) and having headaches (yes suddenly I feel a migraine coming on - this code is killing me…) why is it being used exactly as such here?

http://gmic.eu/tutorial/_repeat.shtml5
(^ this being part of the official tutorials provided to learn and experiment with GMIC)

If you’ve recommendations I’d be interested in your take on the code and how it should look.
That being said, I’m in love with GMIC, what a fantastic tool!!