I personally feel that Deletion Review has a worse record than AFD or the other deletion forums.
The problem is that it has a split personality, dealing both with process and content, and often has trouble keeping its eyes on the ball. It must be a place where you can come and say things like:
"WTF? My article was speedied though it obviously doesn't meet any speedy deletion criterion. Can't I at least get a chance to defend it in an AfD?" (a process-oriented request)
But you must also be able to say things like this:
"I think AfD really dropped the ball when it deleted <X>. This is actually quite a notable whatsit as shown by <Y> and <Z>. Can I have it back?" (a content-oriented request)
The problem is that some people treat the process oriented requests as content-oriented and say: "No, we won't undelete it - it doesn't look like a worthwhile article to me." And some people treat the content-oriented requests as process-oriented and say: "No, we can't undelete it because the AfD was legit."
This is not good, DRV has to be able to handle both types of requests sensibly.
Regards, Haukur