Comment by BariumBlue

True - the biggest thing I want to catch in an MR is "will this change lead us onto a path that is uglier, buggier, less maintenanable".

People will generally copy and follow existing patterns, so for example if you let somebody add a new internal date time format, then soon your codebase will bifurcate and there'll be multiple inconsistent versions roaming around.

The other stuff (minor bugs, overly verbose code) can easily be fixed. Paradigm rot cannot.