He does oppose it being thought of a syntactic feature, ie part of the syntax. He says it should be thought of as an error correction feature. That is: do not

He does oppose it being thought of a syntactic feature, ie part of the syntax. He says it should be thought of as an error correction feature. That is: do not in any case rely on ASI. Add your semicolons and only let ASI do it works when you do an actual ERROR and forget to add one.