I don't understand how any of the problems mentioned are related to git flow (or even to feature branches, which is what they're really complaining about) And

I don't understand how any of the problems mentioned are related to git flow (or even to feature branches, which is what they're really complaining about) And I don't see how they're any better off all committing to master eg > Merge problems become hairier and hairier. With everybody working on a long-lived branch, there will be multiple conflicts once they eventually merge. Large scale refactors are discouraged because they will “break everybody’s branches”. How is that different if everyone commits to master? As soon soon as someone does a large-scale refactor you'll break everyone's "master" and have merge conflicts. It's no different. Their real problem is not knowing how to manage a team of developers, making huge PRs etc etc