Well, good points, but fwiw, afaiui only patches that *were* reviewed by one of the official maintainers are supposed to be included in -next. To quote Stephen from https://lore.kernel.org/linux-next/20240716083116.27f179bd@canb.auug.org.au/
"'You will need to ensure that the patches/commits in your tree/series have
been:
[…]
* reviewed by you (or another maintainer of your subsystem tree),
* successfully unit tested, and
* destined for the current or next Linux merge window."'