>From my observation of the past few years, every time the github dependency bot upgrades the spotless plugin version, it will start to fail something that passed before. And it usually takes months for someone to fix those, if they are ever fixed.
While having some enforcement on styling is great, making those enforcements to break builds (and also block cross tests from running) for months is not. If we don't have the resources to keep the styles up-to-date, then maybe sacrificing some styling in favor of actual cross tests is a better approach?