It has always been a mystery to me that reasonable people somehow think it is better to omit the semicolons where you can instead of just being 100% consistent by using them to terminate every statement. I have always thought that computers, programming, logic were always all about favouring consistency and simplicity. My mind boggles that otherwise talented people do not see the value in using simpler rules when they work and avoiding exploiting complex things that seem to offer somewhere between little and no extra value.

I guess I just don't get it because it has always seemed precisely a simple and clear-cut thing to me but somehow it is not.