Except, when you start writing code with defers half your cleanup flags disappear, you end up with fewer branches and it makes it much harder to forget to free

Except, when you start writing code with defers half your cleanup flags disappear, you end up with fewer branches and it makes it much harder to forget to free temporary allocations. It's really nice to look at only 1 place in code where something was allocated to ensure it also gets deallocated, instead of looking at the curly brace and then thinking: ok, what should be deallocated here, and when should it not be?