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The syntax was originally called `KTX`, back before the Android Kotlin Extensions (also called KTX) started competing for the same name.  If you look back at some of the original commits to Compose, you'll see a flag to enable/disable the KTX syntax.  There were some very real reasons the syntax existed, which maybe we'll go into in a blog post or something some day.  Those early explorations had a major impact both on what Compose is today and what Kotlin can do today.