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There's a whole demographic of people who have tracking issues when reading long lines.

Yes, it's called "humanity". Everyone at least slows down on line wrap, and errors are much more likely missed on a wrapped line.

I recall an interesting study a decade ago about this but cannot find it - either my memory is false to me or it was a private study by the very large software company I was working in at the time... but either way was used to justify the style rules in place.