I think this comment is coming from a very different place to my experience. Academic work is much less predictable than the sort of work you seem to be talking

I think this comment is coming from a very different place to my experience. Academic work is much less predictable than the sort of work you seem to be talking about. Like we're doing maths that no one in the world has done before, and which is objectively kinda hard. When we notice a mistake a few days before a big conference deadline (which is actually what happened around the end of last year) its hard to imagine any process could be adequate to stop that happening. Mistakes get found even in peer reviewed papers all the time, admittedly usually innocuous ones. You seem to be suggesting processes for vetting our internal stuff which are more stringent than actual peer review.