My last boss had a problem with this. Guy literally told me to just accept any change suggested to ease the review process and it's not worth debating any comments. We had very different opinions.
He always claimed he was "not nit-picky", but then he let reviews turn into exactly what you said, while loops versus for loops and what-not, and allowed the rest of the team to comment on low-value things like style rather than answering the important questions.
Why pushback at using a built-in function that does the same thing as some little helper your team wrote 8 years ago, when your helper function doesn't even handle special cases? There's literally no point other than someone has NIH syndrome. Why are the source files all 5,000 lines long and not broken into a logical project structure? Why is the back-end data-gathering and transforming code inter-mangled with the front-end templates (Django) so far as to be written as template filters and template functions?
It did not take me long to realize the development culture there was not aligned with my values. The lead developers came up in a different world and refused to see the positives and benefits of any modern development workflow involving a separate back-end API and front-end application.
He always claimed he was "not nit-picky", but then he let reviews turn into exactly what you said, while loops versus for loops and what-not, and allowed the rest of the team to comment on low-value things like style rather than answering the important questions.
Why pushback at using a built-in function that does the same thing as some little helper your team wrote 8 years ago, when your helper function doesn't even handle special cases? There's literally no point other than someone has NIH syndrome. Why are the source files all 5,000 lines long and not broken into a logical project structure? Why is the back-end data-gathering and transforming code inter-mangled with the front-end templates (Django) so far as to be written as template filters and template functions?
It did not take me long to realize the development culture there was not aligned with my values. The lead developers came up in a different world and refused to see the positives and benefits of any modern development workflow involving a separate back-end API and front-end application.