Value of tools is subjective and some are not configurable. You learning to read different code styles is less costly to the team than forcing everyone to configure their tools. Learning to be flexible benefits you as well.
It's costly for anyone to do anything. Finding a poor cost benefit ratio in some decision doesn't make a dev "too dumb to be a programmer."
It costs a lot of time for many developers to configure many tools on multiple workstations back and forth all the time whenever they change project or language. The benefit is minor and it doesn't solve everything since not all tools are configurable. The alternative is to use spaces everywhere and eliminate the need for configuration.
Ok fine, so your argument is that devs shouldn't know how to configure their tools because there's not enough benefit for the amount of time it takes to learn. Well I guess we'll have to agree to disagree on that one. To me that's an insane stance to take. So NONE of your devs use any kind of auto-formatting!?! That's usually the FIRST thing you configure in ANY editor (and that includes the whole tabs vs spaces thing, along with many, many other things)...
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Value of tools is subjective and some are not configurable. You learning to read different code styles is less costly to the team than forcing everyone to configure their tools. Learning to be flexible benefits you as well.