Perhaps I am too used to having to scroll, and never had the joy of not needing to at all, but this is the weirdest part of the article to me.
Unfortunately auto-formatting is a better for other reasons so we don't have much wiggle room here but left alone I adopt the authors style
Not always.
I'm a developer that likes a lot of whitespace. My style is exactly the one the author hates.
I struggle with full walls of text. As in, my brain just simply cannot handle whitespace-free, or nearly whitespace-free, code.
Whitespace makes it easier for me to read, exactly the opposite of the author.
And that's okay. But it's certainly not an impediment of knowledge transfer to my brain.