I personally really enjoy the automatic line breaking behavior of prettier as it frees me from having to make this entire class of purely stylistic decisions bu

I personally really enjoy the automatic line breaking behavior of prettier as it frees me from having to make this entire class of purely stylistic decisions but still have code formatted in a reasonably legible manner. But I also have wished on multiple occasions that prettier was just an opinionated preset on top of a much more configurable core, which would make it less of a taboo to add options for what are obviously massively divisive formatting preferences. Case in point, all the most popular issues in the repo are some form of people asking for options or changes to the current behavior: https://github.com/prettier/prettier/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+sort%3Areactions-%2B1-desc https://github.com/prettier/prettier/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%... And let's face it, that whole idea of a 1-size-fits all JS code formatting tool to end all formatting debates? That ship has sailed a long time ago. The debate just moved to what prettier options to use: https://prettier.io/docs/en/options.html https://prettier.io/docs/en/options.html I think the real value of prettier these days is that we can debate as a team once, decide on an option, and then have that decision be enforced automatically moving forward. A configurable core + opinionated defaults can serve that use case just as well.