If there's resistance to picking a style guide, autoformatting might be a viable start and will probably do quite a bit for shallow consistency at the price of

If there's resistance to picking a style guide, autoformatting might be a viable start and will probably do quite a bit for shallow consistency at the price of large PR:s once per file. Once one has worked with a forced style for a while it starts to feel weird to see breaches of it, and I think that might help softening people to adapting a style guide regarding more subtle things like error handling or attitude to standardised protocols like HTTP.