In lots of case linters might be harmful also. It is one thing to have a style guide people follow in most cases, it is another one to rigidly force everywhere

In lots of case linters might be harmful also. It is one thing to have a style guide people follow in most cases, it is another one to rigidly force everywhere the style that the linter enforce. Especially because most linters will impose that everyone on the team will use them. For example, if we take Python, there is black that is bat shit and makes your code less readable but adopted by so many teams as cargo cult because doing that signal that you are a cool, hype, best practice following team... In the end with "black", people are forced to abide by the style of the random guy that created it, that is not exactly following the PEP8 or the zen of python, and is just itself created in cargo cult inspired by go and rust, and Python creator even advised against using it for readability except in special cases like very very big teams.