Apps like Grammarly always suggest replacing semicolons with commas, so the increased use of these apps is driving semicolons to extinction.
Apps like Grammarly probably think there's nothing wrong with the "Historical present tense."
“Apps like Grammarly always suggest replacing semicolons with commas, so the increased use of these apps is driving semicolons to extinction.”
It seems that if I write a long-ish sentence and put in a comma, the app tells me to remove it. If I don’t put in a comma, the app suggests I add one.