Well, British style is more specific than American style.
The rule under British style is that punctuation should go inside the quotes if
it "belongs" to the quoted text (e.g., with our technical writing). The only
exception, unfortunately, is the one we're talking about! Closing punctuation
('.', '!', and '?') Should go inside of the closing quote of a sentence.
An Oxford University style guide makes this clear:
https://www.ox.ac.uk/sites/files/oxford/media_wysiwyg/University%20of%20Oxford%20Style%20Guide.pdf
... see page 16.
I certainly understand your preference. For example, the phrase ":set lines?"
would terminate this sentence under proper grammatical rules. In my
experience, though, this is still somewhat rare. Since a "sentence" is
a grammatical construct, I recommend sticking with the rules of grammar.
In addition, your way would require re-defining the sentence text object in the
documentation under ":h sentence". As the documentation says:
The definition of a sentence cannot be changed.
I certainly won't be upset if you take things in a different direction. I also
agree that the most important thing is that "as" and "is" remain consistent.
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