Personally I prefer anarchy over regulation.

Other than a lack of consistency, has anybody experienced real problems with the way things are? (Yes, I understand that with tabs spacing can get a bit wonky if one person's editor is set to 4 characters per tab, while another has theirs at 8 spaces, and that spacing when files are cat'd to a terminal at 8 spaces can look funny too... but is consistency worth the price of conformity?)