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I personally think Black has the most beautiful style of the Python formatters. For example, I really dislike yapf's way of doing things.

> Beautiful is better than ugly.

Things in this industry are divided into those that get complained about and those that get forgotten.

> Want a better standard? Make it.

That is what this post is advocating for, his own fork of black.

Yes, but in this case it was all bark with no bite. The author has made 0 commits to his fork since forking (in Feb).

From other comments it looks like the author can be quite vitriolic, so it is possible that a lot of the criticism he receives here is fair in tone. But to me this looks a bit premature, the article sounded like a declaration of intent (especially regarding refactoring the code per se).

In particular I understand that there are wrong ways to complain (and possibly the author is guilty of them), but this specific blog felt over the top and emotional (something I sympathize after unrelated experiences in failing to understand how to organize an Poly/ML project) but not unfair.