[eviks]

Nah, just as primitive as emacs, there are plenty of areas with no progress even after decades have passed

How do you vertically align by =

    www = 1
    iii = 2

[tmtvl]

You don't because the = isn't important, it's what comes after:

  www =
    1
  iii =
    2
  llanfair =
    3

[eviks]

You do because it is, have you not read the tales of tables to notice the straightness of vertical borders?

Your suggestion is not only much worse by joining the columns, wasting more space, but it's also invalid in many syntaxes

[CRConrad]

Uuaargh! That's the ugliest freaking thing I've seen in a long while.

So, now, how do you do that in three lines?

[tmtvl]

We can do it in 2:

  (www, iii, llanfair) =
    (1, 2, 3)

[CRConrad]

Then for fuck's sake do it in one.