I've started to remove them from my own code. It's widely mentioned as The Right Way, but I feel the reasons why are obsolete. The stated reason is always that you could forget to add braces when adding a second statement.

That was useful in a time where a text editor was "smart" when it copied your indentation to a new line. But nowadays any tooling will warn you when indentation doesn't match the bracing. The odds of people making that mistake has gone so far down, that the risk is no longer worth the reduced readability.