I’ve had too many arguments with management about letting them merge and I’m not letting that ruin my code base

I guess I'm lucky, before here I always had 100% control of the code I was responsible for. Here (last 12 years) we have a big team, but nobody merges to master/main without a review and screwups in the section of the repository I am primarily responsible for have been rare.

We have a new VP collecting metrics on everyone, including lines of code, number of merge requests, times per day using ai, days per week in the office vs at home

I have been getting actively recruited - six figures+ - for multiple openings right here in town (not a huge market here, either...) this may be the time...