I'm not sure I phrased that correctly. The point I was trying to get across with that sentence was not so much that web UIs are bad, but that if you are using a

I'm not sure I phrased that correctly. The point I was trying to get across with that sentence was not so much that web UIs are bad, but that if you are using a forge with in-browser support for reviewing changes (generally in the context of pull requests), then there is little benefit to sending "a commit sha and branch name" separately. Similarly, send-email–based workflows have little need to manage the repository in the browser. Email-based workflows and pull-request-based workflows are parallel in that they provide the same features in different ways. We can quibble about which is more convenient (admittedly I find the former better in this regard, although I recognize that this is a minority opinion), but they are IMO both more-or-less equally viable choices.