Approve Improvement, Not Perfection
Decide whether a review comment should block merge by tying it to code health.
The reviewer’s job is to protect code health while keeping useful work moving. Code review is not a scavenger hunt for flaws; it is a control point for code health. The strongest reviewers separate three questions that often get tangled together: does this change improve the system, can the team safely maintain it, and what feedback is required before merge versus useful for later learning? That separation matters because reviewers who chase perfection create queue time, while reviewers who rubber-stamp small degradations let complexity compound. The practical mechanism is to make each comment traceable to user impact, maintainability, correctness, or…
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