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Yep, it was an organisational issue with different work types.

To quote the CTO later on "I could see where the endless review discussions might end up heading so I split the team into product and project before we hit Godwin's law."

If they had become vile then someone would have been fired. CTO did a good job and stepped in before that happened.

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That's subtly different to what you said before. Godwin's Law wasn't why you had to lock down code reviews. It was in anticipation of the law being true that you did it, which isn't quite the same thing. Self-fulfilling prophecy, perhaps.

Godwin's Law was part of the CTO's reasoning to split up the team and lock down code reviews to within each specific team.

So it forms part of the why.