I totally understand where you're coming from. I think the greatest issue is when there's an overlap between two things: - the fact that systems like Django ac

I totally understand where you're coming from. I think the greatest issue is when there's an overlap between two things: - the fact that systems like Django actually make it difficult to switch branches from a feature branch with one migration to another on a different migration tree, without fully rolling back everything (including the test data you may be deep in the weeds experimenting on, that may not yet be in fixtures), and - being in an environment where you require same-day turnaround on things that aren't really bugs but would be seen that way by high-profile clients, and the priority is high enough to disrupt flow and run the risk of those "raft of bugs" For instance, if User A is highly influential and it would be meaningful to the business to have rapid turnaround on ensuring that Asset B that they're looking at has a specific fix to some data that you know you should make fully customizable at users' discretion, but don't yet have the right spec in place to build a customization on a per-Asset basis, and every team member is deeply working on debugging a feature... you just do asset.config.foo = bar, ensure it's extremely well documented at the site where a column definition would be in your model file, make a simple commit that you know won't affect anything else, and you take that as technical debt, and you keep yourself from getting too far out of flow. The "data cleanse" you speak of comes in the form of a regular inventory of live config variables (select the set of keys and distinct values across all configurable tables), and the creation of user stories where necessary. If there was a way to `git stash` all changes made to a dev database, and pop that afterwards, that would absolutely make it possible to do a more robust workflow. It's ironic that e.g. Postgres MVVC and transactional DDL is so robust, and yet I haven't found a tool that makes it feel nearly as seamless.