I've recently worked for a company that had no linter and no formatter. It was Java backend, but we have those tools too :) My first PR received 70 comments, 98% was nit-picking. Things like "Rename `MyDomainEntity source` to `MyDomainEntity myDomainEntity`" (it was a MapStruct mapper). I was also asked to remove a simple parent class that I used (in tests!) to reduce duplicated code, something like `MyNewFeatureBaseTest`, because Create, Get, Update, Patch, Delete test classes where sharing some functionalitites.

They fired me during the trial period after this PR.

Before this experience I was also "let's follow conventions even if they are bad", but now that I saw this argument applied so blindly against me, where I wasn't even allowed to use a common class to avoid duplicated code, I don't know, it just feels wrong.

3 weeks later and I'm still unsure if I was really wrong or just being gaslighted. I get conventions like "we split tests in create, get, etc. classes" or "the type of the incoming payload must be called `SomeEntityInput` and the output must be called `SomeEntityOutput`", but 70 comments? And you want me to duplicate code because that's what you did until now, "because conventions"?