I just don't think this makes its case well, though there is a case to be made. I have worked at places where one person should never have the ability to push

I just don't think this makes its case well, though there is a case to be made. I have worked at places where one person should never have the ability to push unreviewed code into master because the company was huge and already successful and it'd be a security risk. I have also worked with coworkers who fetishized the process part of stuff and wanted to create all sorts of rules with high overhead to solve entirely hypothetical problems from their imagination. The hard part is differentiating the two.