If they piss off a dev they risk losing all the plugins of that dev. So they must not look at uBOL, the subject of the review, but at uBO, the most popular plugin of that dev. And it turns out that it's Firefox's most popular plugin among all its plugins. They should immediately escalate the review even if gorhill submitted a plugin to log Hello World in the console.

> This was for uBlock lite, a much lesser used plugin

Sure, but it's published by the same developer and has existed for a while. It's not a brand new extension under his account, or published on a different developer account.

I've built review systems before, and you typically have safeguards in place to prevent mistakes that impact your biggest users. No matter how you cut it, this isn't a good look for Mozilla.

And behind the scenes is one human being maintaining both.

If you make maintaining one of them more stressful than the other, the maintainer dropping one to focus on the other is a predictable consequence.