For everyone else it's a net loss.

I've used Gerrit years ago, I thought it was great being able to shape my diffs into stacked chunks that reviewers could effortlessly navigate in a coherent story I'm telling.

Then I joined a company that wanted you to build and ship it in the same day. Now I dread the idea of going back to week long review cycles.

Ick.

The problem is the time has been repeatedly extended across the world to the point that society gets very little from this arrangement.

At this point we're better off removing the concept of IP entirely.

Must be nice to have an American accent.