The owner system is kind of a necessary evil to enforce reviews from the domain experts. I've seen lots of junior engineers who just want to submit their code a

The owner system is kind of a necessary evil to enforce reviews from the domain experts. I've seen lots of junior engineers who just want to submit their code and move on and I appreciate their productivity, but there have been so many cases where a seemingly innocuous change eventually led to a million dollars incident and only those domain experts could've detected it. And I've still gotten lots of pagers exactly due to this reason even with this enforcement thanks to someone able to find a relatively lenient reviewer on the codebase with broad ownership. > There was no way to update every call site of your library in an efficient way. There are global approvers. It's not super easy to get their approval (you need to go through the large scale change process), but getting each owner's approval will be exempted if you can get the one.