[jrbancel]

I agree that requiring deep code reviews on every code change is ridiculous. Unfortunately, I have never seen a team that doesn't have at least a developer that is much worse than the average member of the team. He can be bad at abstraction, at design, at naming things or anything else. This developer produces sub-optimal (or even worse, incorrect) code that is hard to understand, maintain and extend.

I have observed that naturally, the other teammates will review the code of this specific coworker while not looking at changes submitted by good and reliable teammates.

I see code reviews as a tool to provide feedbacks to someone and help him improve the quality of the code he writes.