One superficial example: There is only one correct formatting of a particular Go source file, so you never have to debate with someone (or yourself) whether to

One superficial example: There is only one correct formatting of a particular Go source file, so you never have to debate with someone (or yourself) whether to use newlines here or there, or to place that opening brace on the next line, or to put spaces around your assignment operator in that function call, etc. The toolchain formats it the "correct" way and that's it.