Thanks for the positive feedback! My reasons are: 1) You still want to have the option of a "hard" BR 2) I want to set the HR as a high level class, so I can use it freely through whatever I'm working on.

For example:

<strong>Headline</strong><br>

The quick brown fox jumped <hr>

over the lazy dog.

You 100% want the line break after the headline, and want to set an optional one in the subtext.

I like it because its very clean to look at, but you can also create a responsive class like <div class="desktop-breakline"></div>