I certainly have my own data point. When my kids are reading, they stumble very badly over every hyphen. I think it is long past time to agree that hyphens wer

I certainly have my own data point. When my kids are reading, they stumble very badly over every hyphen. I think it is long past time to agree that hyphens were always a very bad idea, along with mucking up the font designer's intended kerning. There is nothing wrong with ragged right text. For best readability, we should prefer to break lines such that we avoid breaking up significant logical parts of text. If reasonably avoidable, don't break: clause, phrase, sentence, quotation, etc.