Trunk driven development has worked well everywhere I've used it. That being said, pull requests / code reviews / merge commits are totally compatible with tha

Trunk driven development has worked well everywhere I've used it. That being said, pull requests / code reviews / merge commits are totally compatible with that. Gerrit, for example, does every commit as a mini-pull-request on top of a branchless HEAD, and when the review finishes, you merge to main/trunk and off to CD it goes.