This matches what I've seen. The bottleneck moved from writing to reviewing, but we didn't update the process to reflect that. What helped our team was shifting to smaller, more frequent commits with tight scope descriptions — reviewing five 30-line diffs is dramatically less taxing than one 150-line diff, even though the total volume is the same. The cognitive load is nonlinear.
This is what killed my willingness to subscribe to most outlets. If I'm paying, I expect the page to load in under a second with zero tracking. Instead you get the same bloated experience minus a banner ad or two.
Yes, running Chromium in a Docker container works well for this. There are prebuilt images like https://hub.docker.com/r/browserless/chrome that give you a headless instance you can connect to via CDP (Playwright, Puppeteer). Keeps everything isolated from your actual browser profile and credentials.