The technical review wasn't technical. It was a human roleplaying as a code formatter. The technical content was entirely found in the comment about ABI compatiblity.

I didn't see any discussion about tradeoffs, alternative approaches, or a survey of what other systems do for this kind of functionality, or detailed benchmark results.

The tone was roughly what I'd want people to give me in a code review -- the only problem is that it was trivial, and could have been summarized as "Fix the style, check it with $tool"