Yes, this is true, but you're overlooking a few of the things I mentioned earlier. Gofmt is extremely opinionated -- you can't customize it. Most other tools i

Yes, this is true, but you're overlooking a few of the things I mentioned earlier. Gofmt is extremely opinionated -- you can't customize it. Most other tools involve customizing to fit your own style conventions. Gofmt doesn't allow that. Gofmt also ships with Go, so it's a built-in language tool, not a third-party tool. That's a huge benefit right out the gate, meaning that everyone's code will look the same. You don't really appreciate how nice this is until it's actually true Finally, gofmt is dead simple to use. `gofmt <file>`. Boom. Done. Compare with, say, PHPCS, which is like: `phpcs --standards=<standards-file-path> --autofix=true --exclude=<exclude path>` and so on. Gofmt is just stupid simple to use. Yes, you're right that other tools exist, but gofmt is the one that really makes it click for developers, and they think "Man, THIS is how code formatting should work." And then we take it over to the other languages, to C or Python or Javascript or PHP, and we introduce tools that are similar to gofmt. That's why gofmt in particular has "changed my life" (hyperbole, sure, but the point remains that I code completely differently now). Without gofmt, it's doubtful I'd ever adopt code formatting tools to the point that I have today.