Why would one omit the close tag?

Question

I keep reading it is poor practice to use the PHP close tag ?> at the end of the file. The header problem seems irrelevant in the following context (and this

Answer 1

Pros

• Would be logical to close any opened tag, like with other languages. Not only X(HT)ML tags, but as well curly braces, brackets...
• Less confusing for beginners.

Cons

• Avoids headache with adding inadvertently whitespaces after the closing tag, because it breaks the header() function behavior... Some editors or FTP clients / servers are also known to change automatically the end of files (at least, it's their default configuration)
• PHP manual says closing tag is optional, and Zend even forbids it.

Conclusion

I would say that the arguments in favor of omitting the tag look stronger (helps to avoid big headache with header() + it's PHP/Zend "recommendation"). I admit that this isn't the most "beautiful" solution I've ever seen in terms of syntax consistency, but what could be better ?