It should not lead to any problems, and should only affect unary plus and minus. The parser tries to make student answers painfully unambiguous, so that is why it was set up this way. There are other places where parentheses are used when not specifically necessary, for that reason. But if you want to change it, it should not be a problem.
WeBWorK Problems
extra parens when a function outputis negated
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