Well some (many, actually) people use Windows too, and some prefer tabs and some prefer spaces; I can’t see why this is a problem?

A language for configs is different from a data interchange language: the former is intended to be written and edited by humans.

See https://arp242.net/weblog/json_as_configuration_files-_pleas...

Indentation is not significant.

And you can't expect windows users to always check their editor is lf compliant. Toml is not just for programmers