Bad formatting of queries are a pain. Queries and specially Aggregation Pipelines can get quickly unreadable, unmaintaibable or miss understandable. To avoid this I'd like to ask for a code formater. There will be always a discussion of a good and better style, but at one point a suggestion is better than nothing. Here https://developer.mongodb.com/community/forums/t/what-are-some-of-the-biggest-mistakes-people-make-in-aggregation-pipelines/11803/4 you can find a brief discussion which triggered this request. To get a kind of flexible the integration of a project wide config file might be interesting. The editorconfig https://editorconfig.org/ is supported by VSCode, simple text file, just check it with the code and it is half way done. Ok a quarter :-)