Anywhere but an illustration.
There’s the rub. We’re not seeing the efforts of an individual; we’re seeing the (not judging here) efforts of an artist to save effort. I just squiggle lines for cabling. Actually drawing good cables in coils, loops, and bends must be frustrating.
Seeing as we had a rant only a year or two ago about him (potentially) banning some language (or IDE? I don’t remember) from the kernel if it couldn’t cleanly handle tabs and spaces, I don’t think he’s going to ban tabs.
Wait, as I typed this, I think I remember it better now. He was actually going to start using hidden tabs to fuck with people’s IDEs that didn’t handle them well.