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From his blog post:
By his logic, JS linters are bad because they're tooling that restricts your access to all of Javascript. But linters mean you don't have to read PRs with a fine tooth comb to make sure there's no footguns like using == instead of ===.
Also, you could use that same logic to advocate for writing JVM bytecode directly instead of Java/Kotlin/Scala/Clojure/etc.
The question is really whether tooling pays its way in terms of lower bug rates, code that's easier for coworkers to read, and code that's easier to reason about.