> I don't think that the pain of resolving conflicts scales super-linearly and that idea doesn't make sense to me. In fact, I think the opposite is true. I admit, that could be a taste issue.

Then we'll have to agree to disagree, as this is pretty fundamental to my argument - everything else ("Your coworkers get to see what you're working on and will notice clashes of intention earlier", "You can run incomplete features in shadow-mode to ensure they don't affect performance in production", etc.) is just sugar.

I really appreciate your well-reasoned and civil discussion!