Interesting take. On hackernews I also learned about an approach called "ventilated prose" or writing with "semantic line breaks." That is, when you write, say in vim or emacs, you put one clause per line. Then when you are done, you can use pandoc or something similar to convert what you wrote into standard prose. But the artificial line breaks, which results in thin lines, make it easier to edit, and also easier to comprehend diffs if you use git to track changes.