Maybe it's just because I'm so used to text not doing this (or at least failing to notice it except in rare cases like big magazine insets where it stands out),

Maybe it's just because I'm so used to text not doing this (or at least failing to notice it except in rare cases like big magazine insets where it stands out), but I actually kind of hate it for normal paragraph text? It just looks weird and wrong to shove the quote-marks right out of the normal flow of paragraph text to me.