The alignments weren't done properly, creating no alignment whatsoever, thus completely defeating the purpose of the additional whitespace in the first place. There was also no standardization to how those alignments were performed -- tabs were present before the `=` signs on some definitions, and after on others.

Going through additional core libraries, there is zero standard among them. Most utilize zero additional whitespace to create aligned variable definitions, and a few libraries share this same problem of additional whitespace with zero resulting alignment. It's ugly and it's pointless.

If these types of contributions are going to be argued and, more importantly, discouraged, then I have no reason to continue contributing to and defending CodeIgniter.