That's not an argument but an example. You associated linters and scales saying that people hate them because they tell the truth. My argument is that the truth

That's not an argument but an example. You associated linters and scales saying that people hate them because they tell the truth. My argument is that the truth that these tools express is limited. A basic scale can only tell you if your weight went up, down or stayed the same. It's a useful information but it lacks context and can be misinterpreted if taken alone. Same thing with a linter. While the linter is supposed to encode best practices, code doesn't exist in a vacuum and had a context. For every linting rule, there is probably a certain number of good reasons to break them.