I don't have a strong opinion on this long-running debate, but the example given sounds like a valid argument. I just changed my VS Code settings to not insert

I don't have a strong opinion on this long-running debate, but the example given sounds like a valid argument. I just changed my VS Code settings to not insert spaces when pressing tab ("editor.insertSpaces": false) and will see how it goes. Being able to change the tab size ("editor.tabSize": 4) already seems like a neat feature that will come in useful.