I'm not sure if there's an "issue" with tabs, but I have to agree that I pretty much never come across tabs in any of the languages I use regularly and find it

I'm not sure if there's an "issue" with tabs, but I have to agree that I pretty much never come across tabs in any of the languages I use regularly and find it jarring when I do so despite the obvious theoretical benefit of flexible tab widths enabling user preference. I can't come up with a particularly good reason for it, but I'm so used to spaces at this point that tabs feel very wrong. If anyone else has a good explanation I'd love to hear it.