I agree. The ligature thing looks neat at first but I have spent far too many years looking at regular ASCII text.

I mean, spot the difference between ==, = and ＝. Or <= and ≤. I especially hate != as ≠.

And since at some point we have to use a different editor or read a git diff, we need to read the regular ASCII form anyway. So what's the point and why bother learning ligatures?