Then is really nice.

I always used to write "clean" pipelines in my gen server and such, that ended in an anon function to return the needed tuple for the respective handlers. Inevitably we'd get a squabble in the code review, where some wanted everything put in a variable then the explicit tuple at the end, while others agreed that the dot syntax, while a bit odd and line-noisy, was ultimately better

Then solved that. The line noise complaints went away, code readability went up, and everyone was happy