[KronisLV]

> They definitely didn't take 50% of our time.

It probably also depends on the people that you're working with. I can easily imagine the velocity plummeting when the person reviewing your code loves to nitpick and bicker and ask for endless further changes with every next round of alterations that you do.

Doubly so if they want to do synchronous calls to go over everything and essentially create visible work out of code that already worked and was good enough in the first place.

I'm not saying that there aren't times like that for everyone occasionally, but there are people for whom that behaviour is a consistent pattern.

[CuriouslyC]

OMG this. Nitpicking code reviews are the worst. I've actually instituted a rule that code must be formatted with an opinionated formatter and linted, and whatever the linter/formatter decide is right, and no formatting/linting comments are allowed on code review to avoid this sort of bullshit review comment.