I find this kind of logic to be a common problem among people designing programming languages. It's an interface to talk to a machine, it's not really a toy to

I find this kind of logic to be a common problem among people designing programming languages. It's an interface to talk to a machine, it's not really a toy to play with. And for any good interface the goal is to make sure people have to think as little as possible, learn as little as possible new things and be able to predict behaviors easily. It doesn't matter whether you like braces or not, we have them, they are predictable, no one has to learn them again. Anything else would force thinking and learning and ultimately cannot be a better choice for decades ahead.