[toqti]

I'm doing as much coding as I can but the project management stuff takes time. I'm keeping the critical system coding for myself.

Can't find a new team, manager says this is it and no time/budget to get others.

You're right there is nothing I can do. I'm thinking of keeping the project locked down until I come back. They can still make feature branches in the mean time.

[sneak]

Give your subordinates clear and specific written instructions, eg: "Don't use x technique here, it is unnecessary.". You are the lead, part of your job is to overrule people sometimes.

If they ignore you, or fight with you, that is a different problem.

What this could be is a teaching moment, or series of them, depending on how cooperative or not the team members are.

[toqti]

I get fought and ignored a lot of the time. Hence the back and forth on the PRs. They'd rather show off some cool thing they saw on stackoverflow, having no idea what it does, than learn to do it properly.