Comment by _doctor_love

> Was there really no internal discussion from a code review at least? This seems hard for me to believe.

>The outlined story feels unfortunately very believable to me.

100% agree here - we seem to forget that most developers hate code reviews. I actually laughed out loud at the use of the word "discussion," it's so rare people want to get together and talk about changes. By the time the PR is up anything that stands in the way of merging and shipping is seen as a nuisance.

To my mind this whole debacle is not really the individuals fault or even the team's fault but the economic pressures that drive people into situations like this.