indeed. Pretty sure there's some cognitive load involved for developers who come onto a team who uses a style that's different to what that developer is used to. Languages with strict style standards remove this problem.
> Again. Third party tools will have exactly the same benefits.
If that were true, the frictional problems I mentioned would not be the rule in every other language. Even something like Python, where PEP-8 has been recommended strongly by the community for many years and has widely available validators and automatic reformatters, still has perpetual low-level debates about this.
In languages like C, where there are multiple well-established conventions, you can still find bitter arguments going on over things like optional braces because there are still tons of bad programmers out there who think it's preferable to ship massive bugs every few years than type two extra characters.
People have been using standard code formatters in Eclipse/IntellIj for what decades now ?