[comfypotato]

Just to confirm that there are people who agree with the author: this tidbit actually kept me reading the article! It was the new eMacs thing I learned today. I thought it was much easier to read after aligning. As long as things stay within a reasonable width, that brand of consistency (read “columns”) makes it easier for me to read.

[mvc]

I like seeing assignments like this being aligned too but it's not great if you care about minimizing the number of lines that code reviewers will read when you make a change that introduces a new variable whose length is longer than any existing ones (or removing the longest one).