The conditional was: If my boss forces me to review it

> As maintainer of some open source projects, there are no circumstances in which...

...you would force yourself to do anything that you don't want to do. Your approach is absolutely correct for the organisational circumstances in which this might happen to you.

There are other organisational circumstances where being the squeaky wheel, even when it's the right thing to do for the business, will be the wrong thing for you personally. It's valuable to identify when you're standing in front of a steamroller, and get out of the way.