Let's be clear about this: python indentation-as-syntax makes one particular style of formatting a requirement. Not everybody likes it. You might say I poorly format my code in other languages, but most of the time for readability you are somewhat stuck with the formatting of that code base which turns out to be a non-problem thanks to modern editors (sarcasm) like vi that can do brace matching and are older than python.

Python's rigidity on formatting should solve that problem, but it really doesn't and over time it relaxed the rules somewhat which made it better.