This issue is being marked as stale due to a long period of inactivity

Is this really a problem? I checked a few other tools I had locally and none of them aligned that as a separate column. I think by keeping the data type by the flag itself it makes it more readable too; the idea of an aligned column would be useful if that data would be useful to read on its own but just a column of string string int string doesn't add much value.

Since this is almost 3y old I'm going to close as part of #1600; if you want to discuss further feel free to reopen.

@johnSchnake would you be open to reviewing a PR for this? For me, it's not much about the data type (although it could be helpful to quickly scan that too), but it makes it easier to quickly scan the flag names (same reason we have the help text aligned).

@marckhouzam as they seem to be more active (aside: I created https://github.com/avamsi/climate, which heavily uses Cobra under the hood, so would love to help maintain Cobra).

For posterity, I was looking at the fix anyway and it needs to be to spf13/pflag (whose last commit is more than 2 years old?!) -- https://github.com/spf13/pflag/blob/d5e0c0615acee7028e1e2740a11102313be88de1/flag.go#L723-L749.