Sure. But sometimes the strict limit forces you to do things that are worse than just leaving the long line, simply to comply with some automated coding style enforcement. For example sometimes you have to break up strings into separate parts and wrap the last argument following them to it's own line for readability... Even if the same arguments pattern if used all over the project (so one line would be more recognisable / readable). So you get 3 lines that are worse (for example) to grep than one line just because it would have 85 characters otherwise.

Long lines are unreadable, enforced short lines are unnatural, common idea of the best judgement doesn't exist. :(

Newspapers can deal with this by squeezing words / letters together, or allowing more space in some lines to make the text align better. Code using monospace font can't do the same.