Comment by havblue

I've been at a lot of companies where code is held hostage by the reviewers, specifically leads or wannabe leads. Interfaces matter. Maintainability matters. Memory allocation certainly matters. Code reviews frequently go down the rabbit hole of how the reviewer would prefer to design it and a long back and forth until the developer has, "explained himself", like it's a Breaking Bad confrontation. I think it devolves into a status battle.