The automated flush left provided by InDesign was no longer precise enough for me, for example. I had to go in and adjust the start of each line to create a visually smoother edge for the paragraph. This is madness. Nobody but me would notice this, but having noticed it myself, and—crucially—having defined it as an error, I couldn't absolve myself from the duty of fixing it.

This is a bit of a problem with my design work in general: I see it as my job to fix things. If information comes to me in an ugly state, I take it upon myself to make it beautiful. If something is already beautiful, I don't always understand the need to simply make it different. (Of course, in a marketing sense it is a problem if something has simply ceased to be new, but that gets into a philosophical discussion. Right now, I'm worried how my response to this question will look online, where I can't control the line breaks.)

Stefan G. Bucher.