I love branches in theory, but the main problem has been in practice around CI. It's a nightmare trying to manage a staging environment with feature branches in

I love branches in theory, but the main problem has been in practice around CI. It's a nightmare trying to manage a staging environment with feature branches involved... given better tools/a better build pipeline I'd go back. I agree, toggles are basically programs branches compiled in... analogous goto vs if/else control structure. But day-to-day, stakeholders want to test feature X that they've heard is going well but it's not stable enough for develop? Okay, let's [engineering time and $$$]. vs. adding FEATURE_NEWDB=true to the upstart script. We've already got automation engineers helping us out, but until the deployment problem is solved toggles are more practical in our case.