LaTeX is indeed better at doing a bad thing. That is, LaTeX is somewhat less unreadable than other implementations of justified text. Humans stumble over hyphe

LaTeX is indeed better at doing a bad thing. That is, LaTeX is somewhat less unreadable than other implementations of justified text. Humans stumble over hyphens. Humans stumble over irregular spacing. It was a silly idea to implement these things in software, and a terrible idea to make them the default. Font designers choose proper spacing. They should be trusted to get it right. Change fonts if it isn't excellent. If you want to get fancy with line breaks, do something about readability. There are a few slightly contradictory things that can be done. To keep readers from ending up on the wrong line, make sure that adjacent lines start in ways that are grammatically distinct. If the end of line 42 leads the reader to expect a verb, neither line 42 nor line 44 should start with one. To reduce other troubles for readers, avoid splitting phrases or clauses onto different lines.