There is no "best format". It's a matter of opinion.
Taste is something we cannot objectively agree, and in fact, people will end up arguing even about this very statement, offering what they think is an objective measure.
Bikesheding, yes. Hours lost in meeting, chat debates, documentation to write, linting configuration. To be redone for each project, team, etc. Worse even in FOSS where everybody will come in a ticket and complain. And after while, you do it again, because the debate is never settle even in the same team or project.
There is not way to take a team of 3 people, choose a style, and make it so that they are all 100% happy with it.
Black took the road of gofmt: you can't chose. And it won because of that: it saved people time and energy.
People realize the cost was not worth the satisfaction, which you are unlikely to get anyway. Let's just move on to what matters, it's good enough. Pareto.
