> I’m not saying you’re wrong, but I’d need more than that to be convinced. Sorry.

So basically my point is:

1. You can avoid closing some tags, letting browser to close tags for you. It won't do any harm.

2. You can choose to explicitly close all tags. It won't do anything for valid HTML, but it'll introduce subtle and hard to find DOM bugs by adding empty elements.

So you're trying to improve HTML source readability by risking to introduce subtle bugs.

If you want to do that, I'd recommend to implement HTML validation for build or test pipeline at least.

Another alternative is to use HTML comments to close tags, as this closing tag is supposed to be documentation-only and won't be used by browser in a proper code.