[waffletower]

I file this under the category of "needless rules created without sufficient context". The author's experience is not sufficient to generalize to the diversity of development environments where pull requests are utilized. Hopefully, OP is a good listener and can compromise when their strong opinions meet resistance from other developers at their organization.

[martpie]

Graphite is a code review tool (to organize PRs in stacked diffs), their data probably comes from their userbase, not just their internal team.

[wk_end]

Yes, it says as much.

> Our sample set

> All of the data-based statements in this piece are made using private and public PRs and repos that have been synced with Graphite.

[avgcorrection]

Also file under “product advertisement”.