Hi!
Although the DEP for Black was written several years ago, we only actually
adopted it in the code base in February this year. The DEP determined to
use Black when it was no longer beta, and that took a while :)
I think the reformatting was fairly popular, many people have given
positive react
The astropy project is currently considering implementing code formatting
with black, much as Django did in 2019. I was happy to see the case for
transitioning to black formatting in Django DEP-0008
(https://github.com/django/deps/blob/main/final/0008-black.rst). I think it
captures the key poi