[coldtea]

>But I also have no reason to forbid anyone else from formatting code as they please. What's the possible harm?

Obviously the proliferation of coding formatting styles. It's not we didn't have "official styles" and formatting tools before for other languages.

The greatness of gofmt, and what people love it for, is how it killed all other options.

[pjmlp]

Not sure if it was actually that, many don't seem even aware of indent, whereas I used to work in places that executed it as CVS pre-commit hook.