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Perhaps because significant white space (e.g. Python) has quite a lot of detractors of its own.
I absolutely cannot stand significant whitespace... it is a step back in almost every area of usability.
Why?
I have done two major (commercial) software projects in Python, with a good amount of code, several months of work, and I've never had ANY kind of problem with the indentation/whitespace.
Any Python IDE (like Pycharm) will easily highlight you where each section of code sits relative to the indentation level, so it's really pretty simple. Really, really simple.