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I did read the article. I am commenting that I have never encountered strong juxtaposition and sharing why I think it is a poor choice.
You probably missed the part where the article talks about university level math, and that strong juxtaposition is common there.
I also think that many conventions are bad, but once they exist, their badness doesn't make them stop being used and relied on by a lot of people.
I don't have any skin in the game as I never ran into ambiguity. My university professors simply always used fractions, therefore completely getting rid of any possible ambiguity.
This is high school level Maths. It's not taught at university.
There's "strong juxtaposition" in both Terms and The Distributive Law - you've never encountered either of those?