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I'm a visual designer, tricks like this are often used to increase legibility.
Like how the brain scans the first and last alphabet and guesses the word with a blurry sense of what's in between. It helps cognition.
This pattern will help the eyes jump from one word to the next and older people will have an easier time following through the sentence.
Ofcourse the actual reason here could be different, since that can be done with even less effort.
If multiple people are complaining that its annoying and less readable, then I don't think it's working
A key part of visual design is knowing that the users don't know what's best for themselves. They usually stop complaining after 3 months which is proof that you are correct and they are wrong!
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It's not like they have an option to switch to
Yep it's not the correct context to use it unless there are accessibility requirements. For example the tool is frequently used by people who are in the neurodivergent spectrum
That makes sense, I suppose it could be useful for some