Pull Request Still Pending Review

You know that special kind of pain when you submit a PR with 3 lines of code changes and it sits there collecting dust for two weeks? Then you check back and your team lead casually marked it as "draft" like it's some unfinished thought experiment. Meanwhile, you're out here aging like fine wine, waiting for that approval notification that will never come.

The progression from hopeful optimism to skeletal remains is pretty much the developer lifecycle of every non-critical PR. Bonus points if your team lead is "too busy" but somehow has time to create 47 Jira tickets about code quality standards.

Pro tip: Next time, just push directly to main. What's the worst that could happen? At least you'll get immediate feedback.