From the 15 years i’ve been interacting with bitcoin core development in various ways (some deep involvement like usdt tracing, but mostly on the sidelines and doing code review), i would say most review is purely based on reasoning in PR threads.

But if you are unhinged like luke your review weighting will tend to be less impactful. If you brigade a thread from social media you will not have much impact on the development process.

I think especially now, since core is starting to stand up against social media bullying that isn’t backed by technical merit.

The best way to influence bitcoin is to get involved the development process and make real contributions.