The benefit is how quickly an experienced programmer can accurately isolate portions of logic and understand / mutate them.
It also achieves that in monochrome, which is likely to be the case when an SQL query is in a shell script's <<< HEREDOC or in a string blob in a log file or source code for another language's compiler.
It also achieves that in monochrome, which is likely to be the case when an SQL query is in a shell script's <<< HEREDOC or in a string blob in a log file or source code for another language's compiler.