People also seem to be conflating review comments associated with lines of code with an opinionated code review tool.

You can keep the banter with the code and the go-no-go decision separate, even external. But post mootems have worked better when someone realized that one of the team repeatedly calls out a class of errors that bite us later and they’re being ignored. You have the ability to prevent this error. Wise up or that person will decide rightfully that we are a bunch of clowns and leave.