At risk of feeding the troll: the point, as made in their tag line, is that you don't always want any individual with the ability to create a branch to be able

At risk of feeding the troll: the point, as made in their tag line, is that you don't always want any individual with the ability to create a branch to be able to merge to master, for a variety of compliance and stability reasons. This is just a codification of the existing strategy used by all kinds of teams, where a PR is submitted and approvals are solicited in the PR from other team members before merge.