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I don't see why there has to be "this is harmful" and "this is a better way".

I've used all kinds of branching models... I've used just a master branch and you commit directly to master. I've used full git-flow.

I think the branching model you use is dependent on the people and the project. But really no matter which model I've used it seemed to me to be fine... And if it wasn't fine, we extended it to meet our requirements.