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by sjellis 3051 days ago
"The reason people like to default to linting when "fixing code quality issues" is purely because it's 100% objective and measurable, not because it picks up the truly important issues. It doesn't."

I think that ideally, linting and especially formatting help quality by taking the trivial issues off the table. If your code is currently "clean", and the tools reformat or flag the code that you just wrote, then hopefully those issues will never be committed into the repository, so human code review can be about substantive points.