Comment by city41

Because the opinion boils down to "use Prettier" or "don't use Prettier". If you have a team that can agree to that, then all the arguing over formatting completely disappears. You're trading trying to find some arduous compromise across the entire team with "whatever Prettier does". In my experience people are at first disappointed they don't get exactly the formatting they want, but once everyone gets used to it and formatting discussions completely stop, it's a nice relief.