[james_s_tayler]

The point is I personally find it more ergonomic. Just like how I'll take a slightly longer route to avoid turning directly across traffic or avoid a particularly dangerous intersection.

Also, context is really important. Not that people on the internet ever stop to think about what the context is that the person is writing the code in. I don't write bash scripts that run mission critical workloads. I just ad-hoc type stuff into my shell to produce output I need for stuff at the time.