East const vs West const

West is favored by people who wish they were coding C; east by people glad to be coding C++.

East "*" is generally worse. It is favored by compiler writers and people who glory in being a PITA, and practically nobody else.

But it is not hard to read any of them. Or, even, mixed on the same page; it just looks untidy. There are worse sins. Clang-format fixes everything without fuss.