From my understanding code reviews are one of the few rituals in modern software development that has been empirically shown to provide benefits. It seems the

From my understanding code reviews are one of the few rituals in modern software development that has been empirically shown to provide benefits. It seems the proposers of this might have had a dysfunctional or even toxic culture. Code reviews should be educational, safe, and fairly blameless. Also breaks knowledge silos. Engineers that don’t like their code to be reviewed are a people smell.