in many contexts punctuation is as unnecessary as an extra space between sentences

iwouldclaimthatspacesandpunctuationareneverneededandcomprehensionismoreaproblemofpracticeratherthanability

Turning our language into a comma-free code feels... less than ideal. Doable, for sure. But why?

That's my tongue-in-cheek point. None of it is needed, but, as my sentence hopefully demonstrated, it all exists to make things easier to read.