Issue with Omitting type annotations for local variables

[ShivamArora]

As part of the upgrade to Dart language and the pub.dev website, I'm now getting lesser scores for my package.

The reason for the lower scores are health suggestions informing a linter issue as follows:

Omit type annotations for local variables

This is an issue at multiple lines.

And I don't want to remove type annotations for local variables for readability and testing purposes.

I've ignored the rule using analysis_options.yaml, but the pub.dev still uses the standard linting rules.

Can anyone provide a reason why Dart has added this rule to the linter? What are the benefits to this?

[eernstg]

Cf. googlearchive/pedantic#45.

[isoos]

Since the issue was opened, we have limited the amount of lint penalty, and reverted to use pedantic 1.8.0.