[StillBored]

Its more than guidelines. Frankly the guidelines are arbitrary, and people's ability to find flaws and apply them just as arbitrary. What seems to happen quite frequently is that the guidelines just end up being used as expedient ways to say "I'm busy, go away" or "I don't like your patch, but can't find anything wrong with it" or any number of other non productive things. Reformatting code by hand is tedious, and every second typing "add a space here" in the code review subtracts from a second of understanding and analyzing the functionality of the code.

Which is why if you have coding guidelines they should be enforced by automated tools. Either the code passes the tool or it doesn't, no on is allowed to nitpick brace placement, spacing, or whatever. Use something like clang-format or whatnot and stick to it.