Having worked with many python repos, that didn’t know any better to follow conventions or that the tooling ecosystem has meaningful options, I am ecstatic to see formatting and linting be a first class feature of the modern python experience.

I know this is a hot take, but so much headache saved down the road to “force” this stuff up front.

Does it have to be "force" stuff up front? Surely there are less violent ways to ease new developers into conventions and tooling than the dictatorial approach.