How to normalize Absible output?

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I have a playbook entry which is performing an rpm command on a remote host:

- hosts: testgroup
  gather_facts: no
  remote_user: bartonbf
  tasks:
    - name: List SIS packages
      shell: /bin/rpm -qa --queryformat '%-50{NAME} %{VENDOR}\n' | sort -d -f   


The problem is the output stair steps, and looks like this:

I've been researching how to normalize the output so it's human readable, and found it was a known issue back in 2014.  Is it still an issue?