Code quality is absolutely important, although there seems to be a lot of variation in what people really mean when they talk about code quality. To me it's proper design, readable, maintainable code, that's easy to test and easy to change. To others it means the actual unit testing itself. So some it means the style you tend to enforce through linting rules.

Style is in my opinion very arbitrary. It's good to be consistent, and for that reason I guess it's good to have rules that are enforced, but with the number of times I have to revisit my changes because apparently I'm violating some obscure style rule, and therefore the build server rejects my change (or sometimes it even rejects it because someone else's change violated something, which makes me wonder how that ever got through), it feels like it's a waste of time to be too strict about it. A bit of personal style isn't going to kill anyone.