> But this would require hand curation? No development proceeds that way, or if it does then I would question whether the person is spending 80% of their day curating PRs unnecessarily.

If you’re working on something and a piece of it is clearly self contained, you commit it and move on.

> I think you must be kind of senior and you can get away with just insisting that other people be less efficient and work in a weird way so you can feel more comfortable?

You can work however you like. But when it’s time to ask someone else to review your work, the onus is on you to clean it up to simplify review. Otherwise you’re saying your time is more valuable than the reviewer’s.