Same newcomer, in a couple of weeks: "Don't know how I lived without it".
I understand your point, but in practice people love tiny affordances like this, especially when they are needed as often as fragments are.
This is a balance, but it's important to consider the needs of power users too. Beginners don't stay beginners forever. We've thought about this for a few months, and decided that adding syntax would be better. I understand some people will always disagree though, and that's fine :-)
