In reply to mark k..

I agree. But the purpose of Tide is to check against the standards of the ecosystem we work with. We deliberately chose not to compromise on some sniffs that I personally find "silly" to put it mildly, but nevertheless. It was determined by the community and is shaped by the community.

Once Tide launches the best we all could do to improve the service is to contribute to the WPCS project. Help shape the PHP sniffs, help out with the ESLint projects @netweb is working on, etc.