Well, then just don't play the game. Make a decision in the team, that everyone accepts everyone's PR immediately without any review. At least you won't have to wait.
I'm semi-retired now, but I spent most of my career at a Bell Labs-caliber place (I was the dumbest person there) before "PR" and "code review" became part of the lexicon, and yes, everyone was good enough not to mess things up too badly.
Every company depends on 3-5 guys for their competitive advantage.
While the other thousand guys are interchangeable, they're just as
necessary (and needful) to the company's survival.
You ever have a user who pines for this or that feature, and when you tell him it's already implemented, he'll change the goalposts in some trivial way? It's not solutions we love, it's the warm fuzzy narcissism of complaining.
You seem challenged with having a basic discussion without resorting to baseless personal attacks. HN discussions have nosedived in quality over the time. Feel like I'm on reddit.
On the topic - here were my original points (with some extensions):
1. I want a smalltalk-like environment but with modern languages (webassembly makes this technically possible)
2. Alan Kay himself agrees smalltalk is no longer relevant in a concrete manner anymore - it's too old and outdated. The library support is absymal, and LLMs etc won't be as helpful as modern langs, since the training data available is less in quantity and quality. And I am in line with Dr. Kay's view - Smalltalk is indeed too old. I feel the same way about using Lisp for my particular goals.
3. I am not complaining in any way - just stating my requirements in explicit terms. Also I dont consider myself a "user". I am a system builder. I am fully capable of doing things myself if there's no alternative available.
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