[fenomas]

I think I see what you're saying, but the context here was asking for cases where omitting semicolons causes non-obvious bugs. I mean:

    if(x)
    return
    "foo"

clearly there's a bug there, but adding in semicolons wouldn't change the code's behavior. So it doesn't affect the "is it bad to omit semicolons?" debate either way.

[z3t4]

    if(y) return
      "bar"

The linter will tell you there should be a semicolon, and you are like, - no it shouldn't.