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I personally find Computer Modern quite pleasant to read and work with.

Apart from personal preference, why avoid Computer Modern?

It shows that you took an extra year to write your dissertation. ;-)

Just kidding, but I got my degree 25 years ago, and at the time, the students who tried to have a perfectly typeset document spent a lot of time on that pursuit.

It is an extremely thin font which makes it unsuitable for screen reading.

A lot of the time, the TeX output target is paper, and there (with a decent resolution printer) it looks rather splendid (in my view anyway).

For me the horizontal line in the letter "e" often disappears with smaller text sizes.

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