Just an off topic note on language: penultimate means second to (last, final, biggest, etc), i.e. the one before the ultimate. Perhaps an odd choice of word in context that is often misunderstood.
It leads to the question “then what is the ultimate bike shedding issue?”
yes, ironically the word choice is to avoid bike shedding, if I said it was the ultimate issue there would be all sorts but but no, this issue, where as if it's the 2nd everyone can have their pet issue be most important and we can reach agreement on it and move forward while tabling the discussion of what is the ultimate issue.
Whenever you have one of these bike shed issues in a meeting, do this:
Give everyone 5 minutes to say their piece, give everyone an opportunity to ask 2 follow up questions to anyone, and a 2 minute response. Go through everyones opinion, take a vote and move on. Then set a date 1 year in the future to review/change the policy.
If you're coders can code it doesn't matter, and if they can't formatting their poor code isn't going to fix it.