I lasted 4 months before resigning but I took longer to get my confidence back.
One of the reasons I always fought to have black from almost the day it existed was because (I thought) it would put an end to this type of petty human linting.
Being senior means you understand the tradeoffs and you make your own decision.
If you ask a senior why he choose not to use kubernetes, you will get a bunch of real reasons. If you ask a junior the same, he won't have a good answer because he lacks experience with the pros and cons.
I disagree with this straw man too.
It's the code review focus on small almost irrelevant stylistic details that signals a lack of experience.
That said we already use auto linters and formatters.
I am more mindful of my code review comments now that I'm more senior. When it's easy for people to take my words as gospel I much prefer to foster an environment where that isn't the case.
Standardizing on things like `cargo fmt`, `go fmt`, and `terraform fmt` remove a ton of nitpicking out the gate. The javascript world can't seem to make up their mind though (jslint is rarely used these days, jshint died, I think eslint is the thing now?)