Agreed! Gratuitous whitespace is a signal. A classic example is purchasing a full page ad in a newspaper with a single sentence in the middle. The signal is bas

Agreed! Gratuitous whitespace is a signal. A classic example is purchasing a full page ad in a newspaper with a single sentence in the middle. The signal is basically "look, we're throwing away all this expensive real-estate to tell you this one simple thing." I don't mind this occasionally, but the prestige signaling has leaked into everyday UI design trends. In my view, information dense UIs would be unusable without adding carefully reasoned whitespace.