Only 4? I have an order of magnitude higher of unfinished tasks since December 2022 in my queue, and about 150 still assigned to me from all time. This is the life of a boring corporate developer in a highly hub & spoke software company where everyone lives in a vertical that is only allowed to speak to their direct manager.

Any time I try to just update the branch to bring it rebase onto current master, I'm pulled into another task that is the highest of high priorities, so high, it can't even be added to TFS, and I must drop everything I'm doing to handle.

I will usually get 4-10 phone calls during the task (most take me under a 2 hours) asking for my status, and after the PR is submitted, it will get ignored for a couple of weeks until inevitably there is a merge conflict, so I then need to drop everything I'm doing to handle it.

I very rarely get to finish a task in my job without being spirited away for hours, days, weeks, months, or even years before being allowed back on that task.