I sometimes find myself sliding the divider to get wider titles. The standard layout (titles full width horizontally) makes better use of screen real estate in that case.
There would be a problem with word wrapping titles, if you couldn’t turn that feature off. Each wrapped title would eat vertical space, reducing the number of titles you saw in any form.
Standard view, set the columns you want to see and stretch the title field is a good compromise as would be any UI change.