I work in a team that uses the eclipse formatter to enforce our style-guide, so I get the value. Having said that, <i>configurable</i> defeats the point of a community-wide formatting tool. From the article:<p><i>Even if the output of the formatter isn’t great, it ends those interminable soul-crushing arguments on code reviews about formatting.</i><p>With a configurable formatter you just move those arguments into the style-guide discussions and still have disagreements between people and teams using different configured values.