As an armchair typographer, I think we need to stop insisting on placing sentence-terminating periods inside quotation marks.
It would have been clearer this way.
> Bezos forwarded it to your boss, with only a single character added: "?".
British English puts commas and periods (full stops) outside the quotation marks unless the quotation is also a complete sentence or the punctuation is part of the quotation.
Source: https://www.unr.edu/writing-speaking-center/student-resource...
Much like <b>being bold <i> being both </b> being italic </i> is a malformed CFG but a perfectly valid CSG.
Ironically it's the one advantage XML type notation has over Lisp type notation when it comes to expressiveness. It's rather unfortunate that, essentially, all XML tools assume proper nesting.