Comment by Izkata

> Without that, what’s left? The syntax?

I ran a small experiment on co-workers around a decade ago and learned that often enough they don't read code, more like they decipher it. Which all of a sudden the obsession with code linters and formatters suddenly made sense (though I still don't like them). And being unable to read code, I have to guess writing it was difficult too.

Afterwards one of them said it never even crossed his mind it was possible to read code like that.