We intentionally make it that way. Because disabling auto-revert means that something is really wrong, and Findit folks need to be involved to resolve that and we will take care of reenabling auto-revert after the fire is off.

Mind sharing a little bit more about why auto-revert was turned off?

We wanted to experiment with a change and autorevert reverted the change before we could run the experiment.

I found it: Suspected victim https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/1101763 of http://crbug.com/853069 was likely incorrectly reverted

I will look into this before Findit's oncall is in office.

For this case, you may follow this to disable autorevert just for that specific CL:

Developers: If you don't want Findit to auto-revert your change, please add a flag 'NOAUTOREVERT=true' in your CL description. Example https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/744731

Autorevert was enabled. chanli@ could follow up further if needed.