Funny, I have the opposite opinion for the same reason as you - I'd rather just use an auto-formatter in a non-whitespace sensitive language and have the option

Funny, I have the opposite opinion for the same reason as you - I'd rather just use an auto-formatter in a non-whitespace sensitive language and have the option to mark certain sections as needing custom indentation for readability. E.g. I've had situations where I'm calling into an API to programmatically build a nested GUI in Python, and the inability to indent my API calls to represent the structure of the nested UI was seriously frustrating. Also, trying to copy-paste code in Python while getting the indentation right is an exercise in severe frustration.