I really appreciate the code review process, but one of the sorts of tyranny that can come from code review is for everything needing some kind of explanation.

I really appreciate the code review process, but one of the sorts of tyranny that can come from code review is for everything needing some kind of explanation. It's not necessarily a good thing for crap to get into a codebase, but as long as the code works well and is readable, I am less concerned if something is redundant. Either someone will realize that redundancy later or it will remain in place because it's just not that important. But code reviews today can feel like an anal probe from FBI agents.