I feel the hard part is putting automation around this. I loved it when I worked on a small, high trust team where we were comfortable with each person making

I feel the hard part is putting automation around this. I loved it when I worked on a small, high trust team where we were comfortable with each person making the decision on whether it was safe to do a post-merge review or that it needed attention first with a pre-merge review. EDIT: Something I have liked at a couple of my company's was a "cowboy commit audit" where we allowed people to directly push but doing so would ping the code owners and they would have to review to clear the state. People understood they shouldn't but also understood when it happened.