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I can't say that I've used gitflow in hate. That said, I always saw the full complexity of the approach to address tracking multiple concurrent releases of a product. It's extremely uncommon in our increasingly SaaS world, but I imagine having so many branches with commits moving laterally between them to be invaluable for backporting security fixes and the like.

For the rest of us, trunk-based development with feature/fix branches is more than enough.