It was about 25 years ago that I stopped using alignment, and the editors I was using didn't have that kind of auto-formatting.

But there was more to it: I realized that I didn't like column alignment any more. It didn't make the code any more readable, and in many cases it made it less readable.

A more recent example of a group that abandoned alignment is the Rust and Servo teams at Mozilla. Their code style used to look like this:

    let mut rewrites = try_opt!(subexpr_list.iter()
                                            .rev()
                                            .map(|e| {
                                                rewrite_chain_expr(e,
                                                                   total_span,
                                                                   context,
                                                                   max_width,
                                                                   indent)
                                            })
                                            .collect::<Option<Vec<_>>>());

A year or so ago they changed to a purely indentation-based style:

    let mut rewrites = try_opt!(
        subexpr_list
            .iter()
            .rev()
            .map( |e| {
                rewrite_chain_expr( e, total_span, context, max_width, indent )
            })
            .collect::<Option<Vec<_>>>()
    );

They found this style to have advantages over alignment, perhaps for some of the same reasons that I prefer it.