I think it’s often Socratic laziness. Not fake, but “humans are dumb and weak, let’s make this easy for ourselves.” For most of my coding work I take it a step

I think it’s often Socratic laziness. Not fake, but “humans are dumb and weak, let’s make this easy for ourselves.” For most of my coding work I take it a step further than this with the simple premise that the code you wrote professionally is not for you. It’s for whoever next has to work on it, no matter their level of expertise. Sure, maybe you ‘just know’ that the equality operator comes between bitwise-OR and logical-OR in precedence, but the code isn’t for you so maybe just use the brackets anyway.