What you're describing isn't messed up indentation but messed up column alignment (trying to align content on multiple lines). Indent only using tabs, based on

What you're describing isn't messed up indentation but messed up column alignment (trying to align content on multiple lines). Indent only using tabs, based only on scoped, and there's no possibility of problems. It's super simple to enforce via linting. People who love column alignment are really painting their code on a grid of characters and expect to be able to paint any coordinate. There are even editors that let you click past the end of the line and they'll fill in all the spaces to that point. It's madness, I tells ya.