She wants to cause confusing errors on completely different lines

I think having both the indentation and the braces surrounding code is much better than just indentation or braces, since it removes any ambiguity of what code goes to what if, for, or while loop/condition. we already have to memorize precedence to define ambiguous expressions. Why have another set of rules that could otherwise be prevented with braces and indentation?

You code in german?

The indentation is the visual clutter to me.

Linebreaks are meant for casual readability, not end of statement, that's how we write long statements on multiple lines. Therefore, we need a symbol for end-of-statement.

said like someone who's never had to parse through 10k+ lines of python source without an IDE. lol

They are not ignored, you can use them to put multiple statements in one line

>>> print("proof by counterexample in a python REPL")
proof by counterexample in a python REPL
>>> x = 2; print(x)
2
>>> print("this is not ignored"); print("it's just mostly useless"); print("but you can use as many as you want")
this is not ignored
it's just mostly useless
but you can use as many as you want

And then your auto-formatter removes them in a blink.