This "receive heavy scrutiny" is part of the problem that is raised in the article though: > You are friends with all the senior TLs, so can get them to review

This "receive heavy scrutiny" is part of the problem that is raised in the article though: > You are friends with all the senior TLs, so can get them to review your code, but this is not a high-leverage use of time. And then, tying back to ops comment, the engineer gets pinged for their bad metric, because of this additional review.