[mellavora]

Some of the sophistication you are 'missing' is there as a solution to scaling problems, to business problems (do you need to track/fix customer/client issues?), or to other problems that may not be as critical for solo devs.

Some of the other is best practices which you are missing out on.

You might want to take a look at what some 'best-practices' are and see which might improve your coding.

Simple things like tagging a commit as "feature/fix/refactor/chore" might make you think differently about your programming workflow. Or you might find it more of a distraction and limitation than a help.

and yes, sometimes you certainly need that 'interim' tag to freeze work. For those rare cases where you run out of time or inspiration before you get to a natural end point of a task.

[sebmellen]

For me, those cases of running out of time or inspiration before I get to the end of the task are incredibly common (basically a daily occurence). I understand it might be rare for you, but for me (and I would think others) it's the default state of programming.

When I'm really getting going I flow through a ton of work and only stop when I hit a time limit, so I expect to finish in the middle of a task whenever I start coding.