A level headed manager asserts that the goal of a business is to make money and outreach isn't the primary goal of a for-profit company. Such activities are fine as long as they don't create secondary conflicts. This triggers a fusillade of virtue-signalling Internets.
But they're not interchangeable, so they give an person reading the code a strong hint whether it's a array index, function call/grouping, or a code block.
MIT is only okay with "disruption" and "disobedience" in the late stage capitalism meanings of those words.
They merely put up with the 70s hacker culture until it interfered with their ability to function as an obedient conduit for defense industry contracts.