[TravHatesMe]

Because the process pays off.

If you have a mature code base, all changes should be reviewed by at least one member of the team. Being consistent with your branching process is important. I favor squash-merging pull requests to keep a clean history of the target branch, it makes it easy to track down bugs.

In my mind, this development process, as tedious as it may be, is worthwhile. In my mind it is the proper way of managing a codebase, I consider it part of the job.