It isn't "too hard" for me; it's just one of my irrational personal preferences. I don't claim that my solution is more efficient; I just don't like typing a leading comma and I think this "feels" more pleasant for me, and perhaps a few others.
Yes, despite knowing how to do it right those damn comma issues always come up at the worst time and to add insult to injury they're reported by most of the tools I have available like they're totally insoluble to the computer (even though far more taxing things are routinely fixed automatically).
"The problem is, that sometimes, unfortunately, these tools are just not sufficient, it's still easy to shoot your own foot and get lost in a sea of complexity."
As a non-native English speaker I found this use of commas very difficult to understand. Often I get the feeling that native speakers don't even notice it.
I think comma is mostly a joke, but at least it is only targeted at tech-minded who will probably put in the work to get it set up and understand that it is not foolproof. Compare that with someone just clicking a box on an order form and thinking they now have "Full Self-Driving"
Commas must've been on sale when you made that sentence since you have an extra. That only cost me a fraction of a second to parse though so I survived the experience only slightly out of phase. That extra comma is a lot like clicking the X supplied in the pop-up on that article in that it takes a short second to get past it.
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