> Superficially ugly code is irrelevant

Can't imagine how many thousands of man hours went wasted arguing over code style, enforcing it, and fixing unconventional formatting.

I'm a big fan of code formatters that leave you no wiggle room when it comes to stepping away from configured project-level style. It basically means no matter how file is formatted, formatting always produces the same result.

More teams should force pre-commit formatting, it's extremely easy to set up and its benefits are obvious.