Readability is putting it mildly; do you write your shell scripts using that && style? No? Why not, is it for readability?

I also have a hard time reasoning about && with anything other than the most braindead sequence of commands because: $(thing && if other_thing; then inner_thing1 && thing2; fi && ohgawd)

And I just realized while typing that out that if its parser doesn't support ; then I guess one needs to

  RUN if conditional_thing \
      then good_luck && \
      fi && \
      echo "whew"