LadyKatina
Dreamer
I can't help but mention all the "Punctuation saves lives" posts make me think about my day job. It's SHOCKING the number of coffee mugs and t-shirts people will buy with some variation of that joke on them.
Commas are slaves to my will. I use them when and where I want them for reasons of rhythm, pacing, sentence flow, and so on. I find it more productive to just focus on how the sentence sounds rather than trying to fixate on grammatical rules in that regard. I'm perfectly happy to throw in a comma when the rules don't call for one, or to remove one when they do.
Grammar affects readability, and is about much more than personal taste/tone/style.
...as long as I'm bending those rules for purpose.