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No. Auto-formatters have a way of getting people out of the mindset of arguing about it and just accepting that's the way it is. It's not that different from, say, using a compiled language instead of assembler. You and I might have differing ideas about how to write the best assembly code. If we standardize on C, it's likely neither of us will love the compiler's output, but short of outright bugs we'd move past that and go back to writing code.