Or, hear me out, they’re doing it to justify their continuous employment.

We could have stopped developing almost every piece of popular software in 2018 or so and the world would have been a better place, but imagine putting YouTube or whatever, Slack, Reddit, etc in maintenance mode a decade ago and only investing in scalability and stability. Wouldn’t the world be a better place?

But that would mean that a lot of people would be out of a job, entire departments really, so they’re doing crap to justify their existence

Am I the only one who finds the idea of a robot typing on a keyboard to interface with a computer very stupid?

after spending like two hours fixing all the syntax errors

If the code has syntax errors then clearly the tests don’t pass. A minimum requirement to start reviewing a PR should be that the tests all pass.