If someone who works on related topics to you is a notoriously tough reviewer, the smart thing to do is coauthor a paper with them so they can't review your other ones, no?

Cite your friends, acknowledge your enemies, coauthor with your mortal enemies

But you also need to make sure to never send your other papers to a journal with double-blind review!

does this mean you should not coauthor with known easy reviewers?does this mean you should not coauthor with known easy reviewers?