Then... the people responsible for this should have blocked PRs without a review. Or protected the target branch. Or... something. If it's sacrosanct to do w

Then... the people responsible for this should have blocked PRs without a review. Or protected the target branch. Or... something. If it's sacrosanct to do what OP did, but the 'senior' folks didn't put in actual guardrails to prevent it... OP is not entirely at fault.