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It was never easy as advertised. Novices even had trouble following the tutorials and making significant modifications to them. Basic tasks, as those mentioned, were easier accomplished with Google Sheets. And if they needed more they'd get someone professional to do Apps Script. Hence how I know of their pains.
The inexpensive part makes citizen science viable in sub-economic and hobbyist settings.
https://openaq.org/ is trying to consolidate air quality data, but I'm uncertain of their licensing and goals.
...you simply select the English firmware `latest_en.bin`. Or one of the languages you prefer.
Build your own inexpensive sensor, contribute to the global network. See also https://github.com/opendata-stuttgart
Turns out pretty much as he says (see given example at play.golang.org). You just type in the style you always have, but with the certainty that in the end it will be the same as the other's, easy to read, easy to maintain, and uncontroversial in terms of formatting. You could agree on google-java-format, I guess. But also potentially waste plenty of time on the decision itself :-) compared to a dictate and tool originating from the language itself.