> like binding a macro to the MS Word save button to make it conditional
You have no idea how much I'd love that feature. Inasmuch as "save" is still a thing anyway. I don't miss explicit saves in IDEA, I see commit as the "real" save operation now, and I don't mind being able to hook that in an IDE-independent way.
I think the UX of git hooks has been sub-par for sure, but tools like the confusingly named pre-commit are helping there.
Because if you haven’t auto-formatted, lined, etc. then it’s a very easy way to do that so you don’t waste time watching CI fail for something stupid like trailing comma placement.
I don’t want to think about formatting, I just want everything to be consistent. A pre commit hook can run those tools for me, and if any changes occurred, it can add them to the commit.
There's a long set of steps to making a tool mandatory in a development environment, but the final step should always, always be, "And you will find yourself on a PIP if you refuse to use the mandatory tools."
If people want to die on a hill that is demonstrably causing problems for all of their coworkers then let em.