I agree wholeheartedly. I was a solo developer. We "transitioned" rather abruptly to the kind of workflow you would expect from an organization with hundreds

I agree wholeheartedly. I was a solo developer. We "transitioned" rather abruptly to the kind of workflow you would expect from an organization with hundreds of developers once we hired a couple more programmers, despite it being a poor idea, because we were still spread out among so many different projects. In retrospect, all of this turned out to be resume-polishing and practice runs for one of the developers and my manager; they blasted off to large organizations rather promptly. All of it left a bad taste in my mouth and some rather negative feelings associated with git, which certainly are not helped by git's porcelain. There's an element of cargo culting against the practices of big SV organizations, but there's a very long tail of solo developers out there, and figuring out where you sit and what tradeoffs are required can be tough against the constant din of The Way Things Are Done.