I understood, and I do believe you're experiencing the Dunning-Kruger effect as well. First, the graphics subsystem of Linux is in fact one of those that puts more weight on reviews even for code authored by the maintainers.

Second, do you have any idea if the issue being solved here and what a less clumsy fix would look like. Nobody is denying that it's clumsy, which is why it is being reverted, but have you evaluated the alternatives or even bothered to look up mailing list discussions before making your conclusions about it?