> Can we talk about Ruby’s laissez faire approach to syntax. Ignoring all the purely technical stuff every ruby project I’ve seen that has at least a small team behind it looks like a kitchen sink. Bob does it X way, Tina does it Y way, Joe does it X way. Every person does it their own way and readability becomes an eyesore as the project grows.

This is why Python has deliberately chosen to not add Ruby's blocks. To make any code readable by everyone. (And to prevent bad coding patterns that blocks promote, but that's besides the point.)