[Orou]

> it forever mystifies me that it isn't standard

I can give a few thoughts on why here:

- it doesn't work for collaborative efforts unless everyone is using the same linter or IDE with the same configuration. Not friendly to edits outside of that ecosystem (e.g. open source). - there are other ways of writing SQL (e.g. dbt style guide) which are still very readable while also being much faster to write by hand without the need for an auto-formatter. - some of these patterns such as the from and join indentations have nothing to do with readability and are purely stylistic. Nothing wrong with that, but there's nothing objectively better about this pattern - it just comes down to how you're used to reading SQL.