Definitely some subjectivity to this question, but I'm the opposite: to me the curly braces are the anachronism, a relic of a time when the programmer had to do

Definitely some subjectivity to this question, but I'm the opposite: to me the curly braces are the anachronism, a relic of a time when the programmer had to do lots of extra stuff to help the language parser/compiler. For awhile it was awkward because it was up to the programmer to keep the redundant block delimiters in sync - the braces (for the computer) and the whitespace (for the human). The fact that modern editors and IDEs for those languages now do the housekeeping on behalf of the human is great, but it seems odd that it's needed at all, and it always feels especially cumbersome when returning to those languages that still require it if I've been away for awhile.