I fully agree with this... my opinion of this "opinionated code formatter" is that the output of --write should be more like that of --check, where it should only print a message for files that were updated, not all files checks with a suffix to state whether or not it was updated.

I've lost countless hours of my life trying to switch to a different code formatter, but I always keep coming back to Prettier. then I see it's inconsistent feedback between --check and --write, and suddenly I'm right back where I started, looking for something else.

having said that, changing the default behaviour could be considered a "potential breaking change" though, as there could be systems out there that depend on the output of this command for automation purposes... 🤔

could one of the project maintainers perhaps chime in on this topic?