I'm not either. I think it may look "cool" visually but when trying to work with code with those in it, it seems odd, like that it's a single character even though it's not and it just breaks the flow

I didn't like them either. Thankfully, they can easily be disabled. See my config: https://github.com/pmxi/dotfiles/blob/e779c5921fbe308fad0c95...