{% spaceless %} abuse (?)

hmm, kinda semi-noob, but heres my scenario

I just started working on a fairly large Django project thats been around for a couple years. 

In the templates,  I see a lot of use of {% spaceless %} tags whose apparent function is solely to trim whitespace to reduce page size/page load time or something.

That's not really what it was made for right?   When I look at the original Django ticket thing here... https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/1067, it dosent look like it, but I'm not 100% sure I guess

Also, beyond making the template code more unreadable too, I think using it too much could impact performance right?  When I read at the django source for the spaceless tag, it eventually calls this function which does a regex replace of all whitespace in between the spaceless tags 

# <django src>/utils/html.py:87

def strip_spaces_between_tags(value):

    """Returns the given HTML with spaces between tags removed."""

    return re.sub(r'>\s+<', '><', force_unicode(value))

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