This is good practice, but I don't think it's the kind of inconsistency the author is talking about. There are forms of inconsistency that an auto formatter can

This is good practice, but I don't think it's the kind of inconsistency the author is talking about. There are forms of inconsistency that an auto formatter can't fix. An example: old code deciding that an unhandled error is a 400 status code, but in newer code it causes a 500 status code (real problem I'm dealing with at work).