I totally understand the preference for using explicit statement termination in JS. I can even understand the general preference for a non-whitespace token to t

I totally understand the preference for using explicit statement termination in JS. I can even understand the general preference for a non-whitespace token to terminate a statement. But I don't understand why that would cause someone's brain to explode or otherwise make it difficult for them to pick out the author's points about the language from the example code.