Lefty being smart... And not at all
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It's unnecessary and superfluous. We add commas between the items in a list so that we don't need to put the conjunction between each item in the list, so the comma is taking the place of "and" or "or." But then we do add the conjunction between the final two items in order to indicate the end of the list, so to put a comma there as well is redundant. It's like writing "and and."
Commas are also stand-ins for pauses in speech, such as how one might enumerate a list in speech. It's also how I used the comma in the previous sentence. I don't know if I've ever heard of commas being substitutes for conjunctions.
You used the comma to separate the two clauses in your sentence, and to subordinate one clause to another. That is incidentally also how I just used it. Authors writing dialogue in quotations sometimes use commas to denote pauses in speech, but that's not how commas are conventionally used in narrative or descriptive text.
Otherwise, you could put a comma, anywhere in a sentence and argue, that that's, where a pause in speech would go if you were saying it.
I mean, if I were transcribing Christopher Walken or William Shatner, yes, I may type it like that. Sometimes ungrammatical things add to the understanding and/or character of a sentence.
Although personally, when it comes to denoting trailing off mid-sentence I'm partial to the ellipsis.
Both work. And the level of kvetching about an Oxford comma is a low testosterone, woman level argument.
The function of punctuation is to convey a specific meaning. Not to be “technically correct” and while making socially retarded arguments.