> Surely the resulting code is better than the original code (otherwise I'd expect the author to push back on the comments instead of implementing bad suggestion).
Sometimes the suggestions add very little / nothing. Push-backing (i.e. adding a back and forth) would be a waste of time so you just do whatever the code reviewer says.
> So code review seems to be doing its job here. It's producing better code.
As with a lot of things, balance is needed. Better code comes with a cost (time), and that time may have been better spent somewhere else.
Sometimes the suggestions add very little / nothing. Push-backing (i.e. adding a back and forth) would be a waste of time so you just do whatever the code reviewer says.
> So code review seems to be doing its job here. It's producing better code.
As with a lot of things, balance is needed. Better code comes with a cost (time), and that time may have been better spent somewhere else.