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I continue to just not *get* Rubocop, StandardRB, etc.
Rubocop enforces many rules, often badly-considered rules, and adds new rules frequently.
But I get the impression that other people are genuinely bothered by reading code with a variety of quoting styles? Like, there are enough styles out there, and I read enough different code, that to me that's just a sunk cost.
Maybe other people rarely read outside their 'home' codebase?
@codefolio I've only played around with these things a few times and it never sticks. Usually I test the auto formatter on a codebase to see if I like the result, and usually it changes a bunch of stuff that seems worse to my eye.
When I'm consulting and they already have a Rubocop setup I'm usually not too bothered, but it's mainly fixing CI "failures" I don't care about on PRs 
I tested the VS Code StandardRB thing today and it seems pretty nice, though, so I might give it another shot...
@trevorturk I can see how various setups (carefully-chosen rules, fewer rules) can make it less onerous.
I just don't get what the benefit is in return for the work.
@codefolio Yeah, I think there's some benefit to a mostly agreed upon code style, but imo a lot of the rules are just weirdo bike shedding, like double quotes vs single quotes gimme a break!