We use this pattern in a monorepo and it works great. Master is a reliable history of releases, and Dev is a reliable place to start your feature branch. Yes,

We use this pattern in a monorepo and it works great. Master is a reliable history of releases, and Dev is a reliable place to start your feature branch. Yes, someone has to own the decision about when and how to thoroughly integration test Dev before release, and do so often. But for 100 other reasons, this judgement call is necessary anyway.