Note that placing the period inside the quotation marks creates uncertainty about whether the quoted sentence terminated with a period or not. I understand that

Note that placing the period inside the quotation marks creates uncertainty about whether the quoted sentence terminated with a period or not. I understand that classic formal English demands it, but I enjoy the irony that adhering to ‘grammatical decency’ led to reintroducing the same uncertainty about whether that sentence-terminating quote is a fully-quoted sentence, or merely a phrase.