I’d definitely support an in-between solution–new default basic and cloze templates with just a few tweaks to the CSS. In decreasing order of importance:
- Left-aligned text
- More line-spacing
- A responsive width that keeps the line length readable
- Maybe a system font-stack
- Hear me out–an additional “notes” field that displays on the back of the card in a de-emphasized text style
- And, while we’re at it, an
hr
without that weird design.
I’ve shared my preferred minimalist designs here (but they’re too idiosyncratic to be the defaults).