Sorry to hear that. I'd pitch to invest in the teams education a bit. A little time spent establishing some ground rules goes a long way. If it's your boss biting down on you for it, don't waste your time, seek a new environment if it bothers you or stunts your growth. Most code review cultures degrade into absurd rules over time because of human power structures and crappy feedback loops. I'd imagine if some of those things became rules either there's an obscure reason for it, or the environment has rotten out.

I've seen both cases for some of these types of things. The rotten culture being the most common