Like just about everything in life it is more nuanced than that. There is a time, a place, and a market for both opinionated and highly configurable software. C

Like just about everything in life it is more nuanced than that. There is a time, a place, and a market for both opinionated and highly configurable software. Claims that one is better than another can only ever be opinion. The title aside, I don't actually disagree with anything in the article. I've had similar experiences to the author with tools like linters and formatters. Agreeing on configuration for them can waste a surprising amount of time. As time goes on, I do find myself more willing to change to fit my tools rather than change them to fit me. Often, I find the creator of an opinionated tool has more carefully thought through their opinions than I have anyway. Even if they haven't, tools like gofmt showcase the power of consistency for consistency's sake. That said, I use a tiling window manager and I'm pretty insistent that control belongs where caps lock normally is, so clearly I'm not entirely bought in to my own rhetoric.