Error reporting differs between clox and jlox

[s7effeno]

Why doesn't clox support non-synchronizing errors for its compiler? This alters error reporting quite a bit in some cases.
Take this input in exam:
if (1 = 1) { print 1; }

jlox parses the whole assignment, then reports [line 1] Error at '=': Invalid assignment target., then calls statement() to parse the then-branch and doesn't find any more errors.

clox does this:

• consumes "if 1 =", reports [line 1] Error at '=': Invalid assignment target. and enables panic mode
• expects a ')' but finds the second '1' so it triggers a silent error
• tries to parse the then-branch as an expression statement starting with "1) ..."
• consumes '1' but finds ')' instead of ';' so it triggers a silent error
• starts synchronization
• consumes up to "print" exluded
• flawlessly parses "print 1;"
• tries to parse the expression statement starting with '}'
• reports [line 1] Error at '}': Expect expression.
• tl;dr: skips to print... and signals unopened block

Is this design intended for simplicity? Am I missing something?