You have to stop micromanaging your engineers. As a manager, you set priorities such as features, footprint, test coverage and so on. Your reports are either qu

You have to stop micromanaging your engineers. As a manager, you set priorities such as features, footprint, test coverage and so on. Your reports are either qualified, in which case they can make day to day decisions like caching schemes or unqualified, in which case you and them need to work for alternative arrangements. One non-micromanaging way to institute quality controls is to institute peer code reviews for check ins, whether it makes sense depends on scale of your team, big shops tend to do that. Manually tweaking whitespaces in 2023 is silly, there are plenty of automated formatting tools for everyone to reformat whatever way they like for their own comprehension. Could be also that your team could take on a lot more work, and would reduce temptation to add unnecessary complexity or argue about small things.