> unnecessary line noise

It's not noise, though. It protects me from common whitespace issues like careless copying/pasting, style differences between me and other developers, and IDE/OS settings.

It's also just easier to scan. Imagine if we did the same thing with math:

    a * b / (c - d)

Look at that noise! We can get rid of some of those symbols, right? Let's replace parentheses with whitespace instead.

   a*b/ c - d

So now it's denser and I typed fewer characters, but it's harder to scan because my eyes don't register " " as quickly and easily as they register "{".