Most teams don’t realize this, but their biggest bottleneck isn’t architecture, tech stack, or even legacy code. It’s pull requests. If you read about trunk-based development, you’ll see the same advice repeated everywhere: small changes, frequent merges, fast feedback. Sounds simple. Almost obvious. And yet — in reality — most teams are nowhere near that. I’ve personally seen pull requests sitting open for months. Not days. Not weeks. Months. At one point, we had a pull request in our team that was open for more than six months . Six . Months . At that point, it’s no longer a pull request. It’s a parallel universe. Below this link you can read first article about Trunk-Based Development https://codecraftdiary.com/2026/04/04/trunk-based-development-why-most-teams-think-they-use-it-but-dont/ The Hidden Cost of Large Pull Requests Let’s be precise about what’s happening here. A large pull request is not just “a bit harder to review”. It fundamentally breaks your delivery system.…