That would be true of a fair amount of the new curriculum. However a lot of the English course content is fill in the blank, which uses a completely different system for evaluating answers.
I have only seen a few of the steps when helping on the forum.
If it’s purely “fill in the blanks” then it shouldn’t care about spaces. But I think some of the challenges might require proper spacing, like after a comma or similar. So I’m not sure if we can ignore all spacing.
But I would agree that for at least 95% of what I have seen it shouldn’t care about the spaces.
I’ve actually double checked the existing English curriculum. I don’t see any challenges that start with or end with a comma or require spacing before or after. Nor do I see any English lessons that involve commas or spacing before or after.