I feel the period inside quotes is redundant. The last quotation mark can signal both: end of quote and end of sentence within the quote. Though it gets complic

I feel the period inside quotes is redundant. The last quotation mark can signal both: end of quote and end of sentence within the quote. Though it gets complicated when there are multiple sentences within the quote. > Dr Johnson kicked a large rock and said, as his foot rebounded, “I refute it thus. I refute it thus”. This looks "unbalanced" to me.