Nope, since I haven't added any non-whitespace characters, rather it is like insisting that people do:

  if (a < b) {
    return -1;
  } else
    if (a > b) {
      return 1;
    } else {
      return 0;
    }

Unlike your perfectly formatted code there, this has a bit of a visual problem: a one-liner consequent is fully braced, whereas a multi-line alternative isn't.

Ternary operators are different. They have confusing nesting and do not support the equivalent of the "if/else ladder" pattern very well.