> Adding an extra-large size to a listing for a T-shirt (for example) shouldn’t invalidate all of the existing reviews.
If you want to deal with this problem rather than channel more of it into a place some of it already goes, it should, because completely different products are added as “sizes” or “colors” of existing products already.
If you add a review fraud control and leave this an escape hatch, well, the results are predictable.