I don‘t always agree with the author about what is tidy.

You can probably make it do what you want anyway. There are approximately seven and a half million options to control the output. My own .perltidyrc changes 14 of the the defaults, f.ex. It‘s still not just so – I still disagree with a few of its choices –, but that‘s so rarely an issue that it matters little in practice.

Makeshifts last the longest.