This is one of the reasons I need at least a minify step on the HTML of any site I build. Sometimes I'd prefer not to but it's the easiest solution to have both

This is one of the reasons I need at least a minify step on the HTML of any site I build. Sometimes I'd prefer not to but it's the easiest solution to have both indented HTML in the source and consistent spacing in the result. I don't think it's broken though, imagine if every whitespace was rendered. And how do we know what should be collapsed? I don't see a better solution that satisfies every situation. Use <pre> to preserve the whitespace in code, for everything else use CSS.