Comment by bunderbunder

That was why it was done that way in languages developed in the 1970s. But, as kerkeslager points out, that logic doesn't work for an enterprise programming language from the 2000s.

We don't actually need to speculate on this. Don Syme has explicitly said that this was a deliberate language design decision meant to discourage the big ball of mud antipattern. And the language maintainers continue to cite this as the reason why they don't change this behavior even though they easily could.