I am, too. My point is that in my mind it feels right to close all tags, either with a closing tag or self-closing it with a /.

One should never use an element as a spacer tag.

One should never use “never” in programming. You are incapable of knowing every possible circumstance someone else is working in.

That's 1990s styling at best.

I built and sold several web sites in the 90’s. That’s not how it was done. It was worse.