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This so much. We have 7 repos and like 5 different coding styles/structures. Each developer writes C# different and uses different libraries, which creates a big maintainance overhead.

For individual developers this may be great: "I learn new things" "I found a faster way" "this abstraction allows me to do X"

But for a company with more than X developers this becomes a risk.

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Using different libraries across projects is an organizational issue, not the fault of the programming language.

All you have to do is setup a single StyleCop config and enforce it across all projects, which would be the same if you used Prettier, go fmt or anything else. I don't get the 'different libraries' part, it can be literally a case in every single language. Let people use what does the job or force them to teach what you want them to use. It sounds more like your technical management issue rather than language/ecosystem problem. Since I started working with Node/TS I miss how similar and easy to read every C# codebase was.

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