I agree with you entirely fwliw. For me it's not a fetish particularly, the spacing just looks too wide in that one case and the comparisons if anything confirm that. "Too wide" is of course entirely a matter of personal opinion but I can't see myself switching to something I don't prefer the output of. I may well change my mind in future and I'm probably going to give typst a go at some point, because looking at the website there's a lot to like imo. Goodness knows for all that latex produces beautiful output it is a system with a lot of quirks and warts.
Sure, Latex gives a nice output but you have to suffer through a lot for that.
Look at the new screenshot, it's so close you can't really tell the difference without superposition.
In any case, Typst seem so much nicer to use that I think it's OK to let go of some minor details...
