I get what you're saying, and used to think that way, but changed my mind because: 1) Horizontal scrolling sucks 2) Changing values easily requires manually r

I get what you're saying, and used to think that way, but changed my mind because: 1) Horizontal scrolling sucks 2) Changing values easily requires manually realigning all the other rows, which is not productive developer time 3) When you make a change to one small value, git shows the whole line changing And I ultimately concluded code files are not the place for aligned tabular data. If the data is small enough it belongs in a code file rather than a CSV you import then great, but bothering with alignment just isn't worth it. Just stick to the short-line equivalent. It's the easiest to edit and maintain, which is ultimately what matters most.