That's exactly what I do. When I joined my current company there was a mix of git flow going on and one project that had three eternal branches which were supposed to correspond to different environments (staging, prod etc.). Nobody really understood what was going on with these repos. The histories were all spaghetti. There were CI pipelines in place that automatically created tags from the source code. It was a complete mess. I spent quite a long time unwinding it all and forcing people to unlearn these silly habits. Each project now has one master branch and, possibly, one or more maintenance branch. Releases are triggered by the addition of a tag.

At first I think people doubted that it could be so simple. It's like they'd been forced to learn something incredibly complex and just assumed they weren't clever enough to know any better. A kind of Stockholm syndrome maybe? We've been running the simplified system for more than a year now and everyone is happy. Not once have we ever needed anything even remotely like git flow again.