You could deal with it by automating stuff, but then they'll see your automation and say "that's so cool," and proceed to 15x the size of your automation code.

It is totally possible to use technology to solve some management problems.

However you can't solve all management problems with technology, and I'm not sure just automating the cleanup will fix it.

Linting, git commit hooks that enforce the linting. I'm guessing some static analysis tooling on the build server as well