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Having once worked on an open source project that dealt with providing anonymity - it was considered the duty of the release engineer to have an overview of all code committed (and to ask questions, publicly if needed, if they had any doubts) - before compiling and signing the code.
On some months, that was a big load of work and it seemed possible that one person might miss something. So others were encouraged to read and report about irregularities too. I don't think anyone ever skipped it, because the implications were clear: "if one of us fails, someone somewhere can get imprisoned or killed, not to speak of milder results".
However, in case of an utility not directly involved with functions that are critical for security - it might be easier to pass through the sieve.
I've actually seen people checking in code that doesn't get reviewed properly on mission critical apps before (like in the health industry).
My understanding is basically the same as yours, and in theory I agree with you. However, the problem is we all tend to hand-wave away any possibility of bad things happening, because it's open source, and don't take into account human nature, especially when it comes to volunteer versus paid work.