Comment by psychoslave

Precisely, it's an added burden to remember and what might be skipped. The less many exception, the better.

Though if a linter is formatting the whole codebase on its own in an homogeneous way, and someone else will deal with the added parsing complexity, that might feel okayish also to me.

Generally speaking, the less clutter the better. A bit like with a js codebase which is semicolon free where possible.

For pleasant experience of read and write, html in a simple text editor is very low quality. Pug for example is bringing far less clutter, though mandatory space indentation could be avoided with some alternative syntactic choices.