Digging more and more in ESLint rules, i found some good ones which enforces good style and more readable code. This issue is for no-empty rule - not fixable.

Suggested configuration.

{
  "no-empty": ["error", { "allowEmptyCatch": true }]
}

Never seen a point for doing such things. It is just waste of code and is messy, adding needless branches.

For what god reason this make sense

var foo = true // or false, no matter
if (foo) {}

I've seen such code here and there over the years, but mostly if i remember correctly it was because if-elseif combo like

let foo = true
if (foo) {
} else if (foo === 123) {
  // ok
}

But again, it not make any sense.