Automate code style reviews

What does this MR do?

Suggest that code style be enforced via automation instead of during code review comments.

The Development Department headcount growth makes it ever less likely that human reviewers will consistently enforce code style.

In line with our Transparency value of reproducibility, code style/formatting enforcement should be done automatically. Doing so will also avoid unnecessarily slowing-down the Merge Request review process and help achieve our Mean Time To Merge KPI.

Because it's not always possible to write automation to enforce, and especially improve, code style, the change merely suggests rather than mandate this approach.

Related issues

• gitlab-foss#53128 (closed)
• !30957 (comment 340542334)

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