Yeah I think that's right. I'm doing Advent of Code in Prolog at the moment and checking other people's solutions -- I've yet to see 2 Prolog solutions which are mostly the same. The admixture you described results in code that aligns very closely with the thinker, and less closely with a specific procedure. Its very weird to see.

Having said that -- once you get Prolog and use it for a while, your brain (at least my brain) wants to replace EVERYTHING with Prolog.