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I thought I'd hate it too. But after giving it a whirl I enjoyed it and am still using ligatures years later. The confusion with unicode characters just doesn't exist because there's no reason I'd be using the unicode ≥ symbol in my JS code

Strong agree - I feel like they just make things a lot more difficult to read… it could also be because my brain and eyes have atrophied in the last few years for reasons 🫠

I find them easier to read though because the ligatures are slightly grouped/compressed visually vs the monospaced font, which can be as effective as syntax highlighting. Example shown is a bad ligature though for coding. Coding fonts use three vertical lines to help create strong differentiation.

Depends on the font you are using, I suppose. Mine shows the triple equals as markedly distinct by using three parallel lines. But I take your general point...

You do make an excellent point about distributed material though. That’s something I will definitely think about in the future