Of course the same argument applies to return statements. And breaks. Some of us use a convention of a blank line after a block that ends with return, throw, b

Of course the same argument applies to return statements. And breaks. Some of us use a convention of a blank line after a block that ends with return, throw, break, or continue, to save on indentation. Of course that can help only if you are not splattering blank lines everywhere, communicating only that you think the reader doesn't deserve to see much of your code at once.