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Trying to apply heuristics like patterns to this problem is attacking the wrong thing. It boils down to a lack of belonging, trust and motivation of reviewers to do the right thing. Absentee leadership not holding engineers accountable for their inaction or slow walking of reviews being the enabler.

This kind of dysfunction happens more often on teams with incompetent people in control but sometimes temporarily happens on otherwise high functioning teams when multiple people are fighting over philosophical control of the project.