Can someone who works on GitHub explain why "Hide whitespace" doesn't persist?
Developers have been LITERALLY SCREAMING into the void at the top of their lungs for a practically a decade at this point asking for this functionality.
* Official feedback threads: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/5486#discussioncomment-11719051, https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/65597
* Multiple StackOverflow questions such as: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37007300/how-to-ignore-whitespace-in-github-when-comparing
* Chrome and Firefox extensions to fix the problem: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/github-whitespace/fnpkdafamnbjoldglihkjjdicofghccm?pli=1
* And many more.
I've literally not met a single developer who likes the behavior. I've seen in person several dozen different peers clicking that stupid checkbox when opening PRs. It seems pretty apparent that this issue is a scourge on the entire development community using Github.
I'm sure that some people who work on Github browse this site, so shot in the dark: Could you please offer some context, insight... ANYTHING about why this issue is still a thing?