That sounds rather pretentious. There are good places to use whitespace and there are good places to use separators. There's a reason Excel uses lines to separate cells rather than whitespace and it's not because Microsoft never thought to hire a designer.
Going hard on whitespace is just a visual trend that'll undoubtedly change in the future again. It wasn't that long ago that designers went all in on glossy 3D effects with hard separators for basic UI design. You cannot derive someone's qualifications from a subjective aesthetical choice like that.
Going hard on whitespace is just a visual trend that'll undoubtedly change in the future again. It wasn't that long ago that designers went all in on glossy 3D effects with hard separators for basic UI design. You cannot derive someone's qualifications from a subjective aesthetical choice like that.