I've never understood why people care so much about the linter settings. It's so obviously bikeshedding, just make a choice, run the linter automatically and be done with it. I'm too busy doing actual software engineering to care about where exactly everything goes - I promise after a week you'll just get used to whatever format your team lands on.
I've never understood why we still look at the plain text representation of code, and not a visualization of the code that makes more sense. Note that, in my mind, this visualization is not automatically generated, but lovingly created by humans who wish their code to be understood by others. It is not separate from the code, as typical design documentation is, but an integral part of it, stored in metadata. Consider…
My guess is it is the same reason why the most common form of creating source code is typing and not other readily available mechanisms:
Semantic density
An example of both are the emacs and vi editors. The vast majority of supported commands are at most a few keystrokes and any programming language source code can be manipulated by them.