As to tabs/spaces, I don't have any trouble using whatever the project I'm working on. I do have a personal preference, but it's about as strong as my preference for ice cream flavours, or pizza. (I don't get fazed by pineapple on pizza, either.)
See, I'm from New Jersey, and if you even mention "pineapple on pizza" in New Jersey, you'll be met with an armed response, and not just from the made guys sitting in the back of the pizza shop with their little notebooks counting out cash.
And how & why would people from New Jersey get upset about an Italian dish?
... because what we in New Jersey called "pizza" is not really what residents of Italy would call pizza. Though it's been made by Italian immigrants for generations and these folks are protective of it. \
I can point to the time when I realized that the mob's influence in Hoboken, NJ, was waning -- when a Domino's pizza franchise opened on that city's main drag, Washington St. No way the mobsters of Sinatra's generation would have allowed that. Allow, the "product" sold by Domino's is not pizza. There are ongoing discussions about whether it's even food.
Due to lack of a local cultural heritage they may feel connected to Italy because their ancesters came from there a couple of centuries ago but most likely they don't even know where Italy is.
It's funny you mention this, because ... you're right. There was a story arc on "The Sopranos" in which Tony and his crew go to Sicily for a meeting with the mob there, and they're typically and hilariously way out of their league and out of touch. But it does point out how Italian culture in the USA has diverged from Italy.
Don't get me started on the Italian-Americans' completely misguided adoration of Christopher Columbus.
Meanwhile in Italy: https://florianscafe.it/menu/ Random pizzeria in Rome, Italy where they have pizza Hawaii on the menu.
Truly the mob is dead!