Tab Characters Proven Illogical

In simple terms a tab character is a shortcut that inserts N spaces. N varies by personal preference, by document, by editor. What looks nice with your 8 space tabs may look terrible with my 2 space tabs. Therefore, physically inserting the tab macro into a document that others read/edit is criminal. Q.E.D.

p.s. tab characters are not a substitute for formatting tools, don't be that guy

p.s.s. if humans were smart, they would store source files as the AST and not ASCII scratched onto clay tablets