> Consider, for example, the 5.12 development cycle (a relatively small one), which added over 500,000 lines of code to the kernel over a period of ten weeks. The resources required to carefully review 500,000 lines of code would be immense, so many of those lines, unfortunately, received little more than a cursory looking-over before being merged.

I am more than a little astounded that new functionality is being added to the kernel THAT fast.