I'd disagree with your last statement. I enjoy the mathematically simplicity of the address into your array being pointer+size(index) as opposed to pointer+size(index-1). Now I will agree that it's probably because of too much math, but it just makes sense that if I want to drop out a term I can multiply it by zero. It's like finding roots of polynomials.
I actually meant programming student, as in, student learning programming for the first time―naturally, once we reach a certain level of proficiency, more of the esoteric concepts seem intuitive to us; I've edited my post accordingly.
You're right that it is convenient that the address of an item is first index + current index * index size in memory, but things like that comes at a cost of making indeces completely unintuitive.
