I am not going to argue about the tastes here but please consider the fact that TeX is a typesetting language. Ignoring whitespace altogether would make .tex fi

I am not going to argue about the tastes here but please consider the fact that TeX is a typesetting language. Ignoring whitespace altogether would make .tex files unreadable (as a comment below states). I am again puzzled by complaints about whitespace treatment in TeX (which has facilities for handling it, like \ignorespaces) at the same time having no objections to the choices made by, say, Python (which to me makes a totally wanton decision about such, also I am not suggesting that you personally are inconsistent in your opinions). Also, poorly written LaTeX macros in this case are not a reason to blame TeX itself.