How do you find the balance between too much and too little in code and process reviews?

A candid discussion about the tension between process overhead and developer velocity. The conversation questions whether code review requirements, CI pipelines running on slow GitHub servers, and multi-person PR approvals still provide value proportional to their cost. It argues that outdated checkpoints slow feedback loops and that teams should periodically reassess whether their processes still serve their original purpose, including trusting developers to run test suites locally.