Code formatters collapse a variety of different patterns, which could be intentional emphasizations of various aspects of the code, as is the case in the exampl

Code formatters collapse a variety of different patterns, which could be intentional emphasizations of various aspects of the code, as is the case in the example shown in the article, into a single pattern, which eliminates that information. You might call this a maximization of the pattern that the formatter happens to produce, but as a result, the pattern becomes useless, because it communicates nothing. The same applies equally to any human programmer that formats their code as consistently as a formatter would.