I find the people that like lots of strictness and rules are usually managers or high level non-coding engineers. Usually these people are trying to limit deve

I find the people that like lots of strictness and rules are usually managers or high level non-coding engineers. Usually these people are trying to limit development rate to something they can have control over. Usually by complaining about whitespace. I doubt I could ever work in a place where I cannot unilaterally deploy code whenever I want. If I can't it's usually because someone is trying to be top dog by limiting access to the codebase in some way. Usually it's someone in a management or pseudo-management role. In those cases where I can't just ignore them, I can always quit and work on my own projects to restore 'engineering primacy.'