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How do people feel about the current way of writing help strings (multiple implictly joined strings with trailing spaces)?

I just opened a PR for a little string utility that would allow us to use multiline strings. It still requires newline gardening, but is still much easier to write/read.

Feedback welcome: <https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/pull/14783>

~I think you might misunderstand, this isn't something that's "on" or "off". Just a new way of providing strings to `help`.~
~I'll be checking as I migrate Pants options that the user-facing options don't change (significantly. Minor tweaks will be called out)~

I got confused with a different thread (asset dependency inference) so I deleted the original msg.

As for anything to do with writing plugins, I only work on one(the Toolchain one)
I don't think my opinion is relevant here since this kind of change mostly affects the pants code base..
Which I hardly ever developed for..

First toe-in PR posted: <https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/pull/14791>

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