You’ve picked a poor example. ‘=‘, ‘==‘, and ‘===‘ constantly trip up new coders and have led to some not-insignificant bugs. A lot of style guides even had to

You’ve picked a poor example. ‘=‘, ‘==‘, and ‘===‘ constantly trip up new coders and have led to some not-insignificant bugs. A lot of style guides even had to include guards against the worst one: ‘if (variable = “string”)’ I think that putting guardrails there by making the assignment operator stand out was a smart move. Annoying to use, but smart.