[Feeble]

I am very much in the same position right now. My dev team has introduced mandatory code reviews for every change and I can see their output plummeting. It also seems that most code reviews done are mostly syntax and code format related - noone actually seems to run the code or look at the actual logic if it makes sense.

I think its easy to add processes under the good intention of "making the code more robust and clean", but I never heard anyone discuss what is the cost of this process to the team's efficiency.

[alkonaut]

The value of having more people actually see the code will be there even if it’s just an unnecessary syntax nitpick.

[mgaunard]

You need to validate things like syntax upfront so that such things don't make it to review to begin with.

I'm not a fan of automatic syntax formatting but you can have some degree of pre-commit checks.