A lot of hyperbole being thrown around. Do people honestly have trouble reading paragraphs with single spaces after periods? Because virtually any text you've ever read in a web browser is formatted that way automatically. I'd assume the same is true for most printed text in the last couple of decades as well.
On the other hand though, I don't even think I'd notice double spacing after a period in normal reading, so I can't fathom anyone being bothered by someone else doing it. Reading justified text must be a real nightmare for some people then, what with all those different sized spaces between words and letters.
And having done a double space when I was taught as a kid, the extra time or effort is completely negligible. You can double tap a space bar just as fast as a single tap. Switching to a single space years ago did nothing to speed up my typing.
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