As I said, review culture can also create incentives against small commits, because they will often be over-analysed. I've seen this sentiment on the internet, so it can't just be my own anecdata.

https://twitter.com/girayozil/status/306836785739210752

Not to mention trivial commits, like clarifying comments, something which doesn't happen anymore in my current project - nobody can be bothered to go through the review process for that.

I'm not against code reviews, but I prefer casual post-commit reviews for uncontroversial changes.