Don’t bother making decisions. Steal a standard. Vote on it once if you want to be democratic. Done forever.

Democracy, strictly speaking, would be to periodically elect the most popular formatting policy once every sensible-time-period.

I’ve seen companies with such a large amount of developer churn that literally one person was left defending the status quo saying “we do X here, we voted on it once in 2019 and we’re not changing it just for new people”. 90% of the team were newcomers.

(The better teams I’ve worked on maintain a core set of leaders who are capable of building consensus through being very agreeable and smart. Gregarious Technocracy >> Popular Democracy!)