Whatever the reason behind, the basic standard is 8 characters. 4-character width seems like a pre-HD pre-widescreen hack to make better use of screen real estate. Which we have plenty of now, besides wider aspect ratio. A bit more horizontal separation actually looks good/can be useful on HiDPI screens, so punched cards' standards might not be completely obsolete :).
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