The key part of your message is "I am experienced enough to format _my_ code in a readable way". It's not a tradeoff between "good manual formatting" and "medi

The key part of your message is "I am experienced enough to format _my_ code in a readable way". It's not a tradeoff between "good manual formatting" and "mediocre automated formatting". It's a tradeoff between "random formatting" and "consistent formatting". Manual formatting only works when a dictator spends their time enforcing a consistent style. Once projects get large, the value of this is marginal.