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> But even if someone does include extra width, it takes me about a tenth of a second to pinch-zoom. Which is way quicker than trying to decipher line-wrapped spaghetti.

Strong disagree there. It's far easier to read the line wrapped code than to pinch to zoom. I think you have your answer: you have different preferences than others do, and no amount of explaining is going to make their "I like cats" make sense to your "I like dogs" sensibilities.



So you're telling me this is easier to read:

  +-----------------------------
  ------------------------------
  ---------------------+
  | CustomerID | First Name | 
  Last Name | Email                  
  | State | Balance |
  +-----------------------------
  ------------------------------
  ---------------------+
  | 000123      | Alice      | 
  Ramirez   | 
  alice.ramirez@acme.com | NY    
  |  245.50 |
  | 000124      | Brian      | 
  Chen      | 
  bchen@northdata.io     | CA    
  | 1289.00 |
  +-----------------------------
  ------------------------------
  ---------------------+
This doesn't seem like a question of different preferences to me. This seems objectively worse. It's not even close.




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