The C example is a great demonstration that typography is not an objective practice. That someone could take the original strcpy() and, with the express goal of improving its appearance, produce something so unpleasant to read ...

When I was younger I did a lot more interior alignment between lines, like with the list of variable declarations. Over the years I've found that they add a lot of busywork effort to the editing process. Everyone talks about optimizing for reading, but not optimizing for editing, which in some cases is really what you need to be optimizing for. But even laying that aside, the readability improvement of such spacing was debatable. Sometimes it's making visible a repetition (presumably one that couldn't be done with an actual loop), but a lot of times it feel more like a novelist who decided that the main verbs of their sentences should be vertically aligned. Agreed, it's making something visible -- but is that really what the average reader cares about? Ultimately the typography should not be a distraction from discerning the sense of a piece of code.