Likewise, some people prefer ternary statements for short checks; I want to agree because ternaries are one of the first things you learn after if/else/while/for, but at the same time... they're a shorthand, and shorthand is short but not necessarily more readable.

For one-off things like value = condition ? a : b I don't mind much, but I will make an issue as soon as it spans more than one line or if it's nested.

I prefer it as long as there’s no side effects. You get tighter semantics which I think helps readability (and I trust compilers to be able to handle it optimally). I find the following format to be very nice:

    value = (condition)
      ? foo
      : bar;

I particularly don't like ternaries with side-effects or control flow. In particular with control flow I prefer it always tabbed in otherwise sometimes I miss it -- if statements are much better for this.