Although there are inline hints, I agree with you that auto makes readability worse. Especially in situations like PRs and Git forges where inline hints are not

Although there are inline hints, I agree with you that auto makes readability worse. Especially in situations like PRs and Git forges where inline hints are not always available. LLVM has a well thought out stance on auto too: https://llvm.org/docs/CodingStandards.html#id29 https://llvm.org/docs/CodingStandards.html#id29