Does anyone use phone formatting (particularly in UK)?

We're trying to decide whether to enable the phone formatting option or not - ideally I would like to use it because our phone numbers are a bit of a mess at the moment, however in the UK our area codes can be varying length (3-6 digits) and the total length of the number, while usually 11 digits, can also be shorter. I feel like none of the pre-set formats would work across the board :(

Does anyone have any advice one way or the other on how helpful it is to have the formatting enabled? I've thought about compromising by enabling it but only setting a format for countries that have a single phone number format and leaving the other countries unformatted, including the UK, though that does mean it wouldn't impact the majority of our database.

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