Trunk Based Development requires your developers to be disciplined, willing to work in-step with each other, and to know what they’re doing.

Why do branch-based approaches not demand these things? What happens if you don’t have these things?

Regarding branches and merge conflicts:

Doubling down on using branches means these problems will continue.

Personally, I don’t want to live with problems that are solvable and the only reason we can’t fix them is … what exactly? The resistance to collaborating? Learning how to work in a way you haven’t experienced yet?

If you have problems with merge conflicts, adding more tooling to allow your branches to go on longer without being merged isn’t going to help.

What am I missing? How am I the crazy one for saying this?