Well, there is a reason: consistency. ;) I hate seeing "==" in code because it's rarely clear whether the programmer intends it to coerce or just didn't bother

Well, there is a reason: consistency. ;) I hate seeing "==" in code because it's rarely clear whether the programmer intends it to coerce or just didn't bother with the third keystroke. So "===" is just enforced everywhere through jshint.