In my opinion, different people have different formatting preferences and forcing someone to use the "wrong" one will lead to slower reading speed and the risk of overlooking errors.
That's why I believe we should treat it like font or color choices. The IDE should display source code in the viewer's preferred style, so that each person sees what they expect. And then the actual source code formatting becomes irrelevant.
Go already goes a good step into this direction by making a language AST tree part of their core libraries. And opening Go source code in JetBrain's GoLand will show you additional annotations, spacing, etc. based on the parsed source code tree (and not based on the source code's text).
Everyone can just set up a pre-commit hook to automatically format the code back into the official style, then everyone is free to put the codebase back into their preferred style.
Otherwise, if developers reformatted code to their preferred style regularly, it would create massive diffs.
In this explanation about Go:
https://golangdocs.com/golang-ast-package
the text following "and we get a nice structure" is what the source code management tools would be working on. It's an abstract representation of the source code's meaning, but not tied to how things are formatted or indented.
The method I described does exactly that. Most modern formatting tools parse code into an AST then rewrite it based formatting rules. So as long as you format both files to the same rules before diffing, only AST changes will show up.
I genuinely feel that focusing a lot on the detriment of someone else's or an established code style is a sign of a lack of team work.
[1] Incidentally the only people I know with carpel tunnel are folks who are entrenched in command line text editors. Maybe there’s some benefit to moving your arms around? Similarly maybe there’s benefit in reading code in a different format, you might actually read it slower and hence comprehend it better.
Not if everybody using the language is strongly forced (as with Go), since then those with "different formatting preferences" will eventually (and soon) just get used to the enforced style.