[norir]

Sure, but now you're perpetually stuck with the visual noise of unnecessary brackets _all_ the time. Maybe it's because I use vim, but I don't see this use case as terribly important because I can easily reindent with >> and << of a selection.

[xerox13ster]

If you use vim and hate brackets that much, write a linter that will hide the brackets from working view and apply them according to how you white space.

[gkbrk]

A lot of people prefer the visual noise of { and } to having to manually fix the indentation of code and still having the visual noise of :