> I meant political in the more modern sense of "appealing to emotion rather than thought".

I'm not familiar with this definition in any modern or archaic sense. Is there somewhere I can read about it? Just because a decision is not directly engineering related (which I'm not even convinced this is) doesn't mean that it's not thoughtful.

That's a perfectly cromulent meaning of the word.

Wait, expecting all code to be verified and tested by a human is not engineering-driven but instead emotion-driven mindset???

That has nothing to do with what "politics" means but it's exactly how people have started using "political" to mean "idea I don't agree with".