I enforce formatters wherever possible after working on codebases with 20+ years of people imposing their own unique opinion on where spaces and braces should go. Worse, arguing about what the spacing should be, and making noisy diffs because people change previous peoples styling.
The formatter has no opinion. It follows rules. It doesn't work perfectly everywhere. It works enough. I would argue caring about exact bespoke spacing of all code is the perfectionism you mention.
