Not just that, there's also the fact that the result of the committee work will then be put up for vote. That's basically an enormous code review, if not enough

Not just that, there's also the fact that the result of the committee work will then be put up for vote. That's basically an enormous code review, if not enough representatives press "accept" nothing happens. Imagine having to review code changes without a diff, e.g. with only the before and after states, on separate computers. Bad idea.