I'm at 30 years of programming in C, and don't understand the comment. I've never had a problem with either curly brace placement. If a line is deleted, and that line is a curly brace, there will be a syntax error. "git diff" (or whatever you're using) will show you what lines you have deleted.

Both ways have some merit. Cuddled curly is good for ismple one-liners. Curly on next line is when the statement header is stuffed with multi-line expressions.

After all the years, I have settled on:

  while (simple) {
  }

  while ((big || complex)
         (condition && multiple && lines))
  {
  }


  for (i = 0; i < MAX; i++) {

  }

  for (big_initialization;
       big && step;
       complex, increment++)
  {
  }

BTW, I generally agree about extra indentation and braces for these kind of statements.

The code is a bit terse due to a mechanical issue - my current laptop screen only gives me about 25 lines vertically.