Honestly I'm on board with joining all coordinate and subordinate clauses with punctuation all the time and calling it a day. In any other context, such apparen

Honestly I'm on board with joining all coordinate and subordinate clauses with punctuation all the time and calling it a day. In any other context, such apparently random deviations to the rules would not be celebrated. (Apparently random, because any actual reason is historic, likely unknown, and potentially not even relevant to modern writers.)