You can't resolve it because it's manual formatting that's not part of the auto format rules, that's the point! And this doesn't depend on braces vs whitespace

You can't resolve it because it's manual formatting that's not part of the auto format rules, that's the point! And this doesn't depend on braces vs whitespace, manual improvements are possible in either case, so your argument against {} vs space flexibility doesn't have the benefit of forcing machine executable style