Maybe it's because I only have one eye and the resulting slightly reduced width of field, but wide lines drive me crazy. I need to see the whole line without scanning. This was one of python's original appeals to me...
I'm like her in that I have eye issues and thus can't use screens that are too large (16" absolute maximum) and even there it needs to be with large font. I wish everyone had stayed with 80 chars so I could have two vertical emacs buffers, but I've sorta gotten used to these ugly wrap around lines.
I wish people just used more locals though. I don't see what the problem is and it makes Sentry errors easier to debug.