Well, it’s nice you bring up strawmen after you called me a hobgoblin (a delicious word btw). I hope this _divine_ irony is not lost on someone like yourself.
> I learned that my style is somehow "bad."
That’s what you are missing: your style is not bad at all. It’s just your style. Use it for yourself!
Teams work on shared ground. Automatic formatting is just part of that shared ground.