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'and the only way it makes code better to read is by forced formatting (the forced white space)'

Indentation is required when writing in any language as a matter of courtesy. Python just doesn't ask you to delimit your blocks of code a second time by unnecessarily requiring brackets.

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at the high cost of crippled one line lambdas, no thanks

I'd argue that there is nothing crippling about it. You can define functions anywhere, if you need a multi-line lambda just define a function and be done with it. Multi-line lambdas are messy... this constraint keeps your code sane.

You can nitpick all you want, but the fact is I can start reading just about anyone's python code and feel like it's my own because styles are consistent across the board. A lot of this has to do with the tight community, but the fact that it's all reinforced through syntax constraints is a huge plus.

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