Okay so we’re learning even more here - code reviews have some flaws which perhaps we can address by performing smaller more isolated reviews first, or at least spending more time on the question of whether code makes sense in isolation.

I accept it’s hard to make code unambiguously clear sometimes but not that it’s impossible - commit messages are just text after all. After having to look up the commit messages do we at least make changes _then_? Do we try to learn a lesson to avoid the need in the future? If someone banned you from ever writing commit messages again, are you sure you’d make no changes to the way you write code? And if you would, why not make those changes today?