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Written language can be confusing without it.
"Please take your children, luggage, pillows and blankets."
Pillows and blankets are together here. This and that. A parenthetical, so to speak.
"Please take your children, luggage, pillows, and blankets"
The pillows and blankets are separate here. This and/or that.
Yes, Oxford commas are not required, but they make the sentence less open to interpretation.
Maybe those were bad examples, but you get it.
Same wavelength. It's just superior imo for exactly the reason you described. It also just 'feels' more well written.
Funnily enough, in my native languages, first version reads more natural, since that's how you write stuff :D
I've heard that from many folks haha language is so interesting to me