Comment by systemvoltage

I think there is a spectrum of commodity vs. artistic mediums in all forms and we often talk past each other when debating the finer points. If your goal is to send out a press release to the public, perhaps layout/aesthetics isn't as important (sometimes it is though so its not a hard/fast rule). In artistic media, especially in magazines and mixed-media books, layout and aesthetics are an integral part of print media. It is inseparable. Just as in music, you don't want to add an equalizer ruining the original intent of the artist, books created by artists in 1890 still are with us in print format - exactly how they were intended to published to readers. But it is entirely different if the "music" is a podcast - I want to use an equalizer to bring up the higher frequencies for better audibility. Similarly, if I am reading a novel on an epaper display and I want to increase the font-size or type, we should allow that as you said.