Evert! :smile: I know it's best practice, but my short reasoning to allow it is as follows:

Know JS.

This might seem silly, but many of these 'rules' were invented to prevent Joe programmer to shoot themselves in the foot. We're not developing websites with JQuery here, we're coding a program in a set environment with parameters we control. Footguns will be caught during review.

The above might sound a bit gnarly, but I think 'best practices' need to be weighed and challenged for each use case.

I think JSHint is great and I'd really like to use it here, but it doesn't fix code. This PR doesn't fix any functional bug, just stylistic ones.