well, personally when i converted over i never had to stare at these blocks anymore: } } } });

made code a lot easier to debug. and yes, consistency wasn't the only thing. i would say that converting over has a learning curve sure reading other people's code. but sacrificing readability long term compared to vanilla js? i wouldn't say that. i'm not saying there isn't ambiguity in the beginning but eventually you learn how to not do things in ambiguous ways.