Goodbye Oxford comma. Goodbye forever.

Dead.The Oxford comma is no longer hip, in, chosen, cool. It's no longer "modern."The language must be cleaned up. Made sleek. Made millennial.And so I mourn this great loss. For if there's one literary element and grammatical construct I adore, it is thee, oh delightful Oxford comma.I should back up for a minute because the cessation of Oxford comma usage is relegated only to my professional life/writing. In my own free time I'm free to use it as I see fit. Or not. But a decree has come down from the branding and tone of voice powers that be and I'm already having a hard time with that last comma. I keep inadvertently putting it in and having to remove it upon a first edit. Makes me wish I could just use multiple commas rampantly.There's even a Vampire Weekend song "Oxford Comma" indicating I'm not the only one taken by its use.I'm curious as to why it's considered old-school or antiquated to use this stylistic grammar choice. And is it just a style choice? Not so sayeth the courts in this intriguing legal dispute. Or, and this is likely far more realistically, am I just procrastinating reworking my first chapter in a new fiction effort by winding my way through a ridiculous conversation with myself, via my own blog, about the Oxford comma?Regardless of the reasoning, tell me in the comments if you use the Oxford comma, hate it, or don't even care. Next up I'm going to go tête-à-tête with myself about which Point of View to write in for said fiction opus.(Featured Photo by David Klein on Unsplash)