I agree. I don't think it looks better at all, and I feel it makes the structure of the text somewhat more difficult to see. I have this reaction to a lot of e

I agree. I don't think it looks better at all, and I feel it makes the structure of the text somewhat more difficult to see. I have this reaction to a lot of established typographical rules actually. Digits with descenders to name just one ("font-variant-numeric: oldstyle-nums" in CSS): I think they're ugly and make reading numbers unnecessarily difficult.