One of my first jobs was a small software company writing software for a small number of clients, in MS basic PDS.
The lead developer didn't like to bother with formatting code, so I wrote a tool called makenice to format his nasty spaghetti gibberish into something with good indents and layout to make it easier for us normal people to parse.
He was furious, literally spun in circles about it right in the office in front of everyone, so I wrote makenasty to format code into the way he appeared to like.
I only shared makenasty/nice with a couple of the team, who loved it, as it allowed easy conversion between something readable and something the team lead like.
Outside of the naming - this is a perfectly sane thing to do for developer comfort and can usually be accomplished with simple transformations.
There are often limitations (like manually added indentation/spacing for alignment) but as long as you're very intentional about what changes you'll allow and have a good understanding of the language it can be an extremely safe operation.
Oh smudge and clean are excellent names. My singly held objection to the OP was that they called one of the scripts "makenasty" instead of like "makemunkastyle" or something more neutral. I think it's an excellent idea I'd just avoid being judgemental in naming. You can consider my deep love of BSD braces super nasty but I'd prefer you didn't label it that way.
The best part about gofmt is there is no discussion about how to format Go code. The style itself is fine, skipping endless hours of pointless debate is priceless.
I find a lot of these conflicts I can't resolve when everybody agrees that the pain of ugly/unnecessary diffs is greater than the pain of minor formatting disagreements.
its because some people learned to put meaning into different ways to layout dense expressions, or different kinds of comments in difference contexts.
python was "weird" at first to C-tribe, because of the strict layout used to eliminate some of the syntax tokens. These stories come from a time before "order over all" in some factory code base was seen as Universally a virtue of some kind
This kind of passive-aggressive bullshit is exactly what's wrong with tech. People don't decide things: they just passively resist, and authority ends up being a muddle of truncated information flows.
The lead developer didn't like to bother with formatting code, so I wrote a tool called makenice to format his nasty spaghetti gibberish into something with good indents and layout to make it easier for us normal people to parse.
He was furious, literally spun in circles about it right in the office in front of everyone, so I wrote makenasty to format code into the way he appeared to like.
I only shared makenasty/nice with a couple of the team, who loved it, as it allowed easy conversion between something readable and something the team lead like.
He never knew about makenasty.