Like setting up rules enforcing pull requests to merge to production branch and having all PR needed to be reviewed by at least 2 ppl with no escape mechanism in place..

Great until something goes terrible wrong and some absolute critical bug has to be fixed when you are on-call alone on a weekend.

Never disallow escape hatches. You may not need both your arms in your everyday job or in your life in the ideal case, but keep cool and wait going to the doctor for an amputation just in case.