[dllthomas]

> As an aside, it also tends to reduce trust and cooperation within a team : reviewers become the gatekeepers of the work of contributors. That work is explicitly not trusted until it is checked. Not a great social dynamic I think.

This seems to presume a split between reviewers and contributors that hasn't existed explicitly anywhere I've worked, and has only implicitly been a thing in a handful of contexts. Usually, reviewers and contributors (... well, authors - I would call good review a contribution!) are the same set of people.