Discussion on: why branching on git is wrong

how do you run your integration and functional tests? With all changes in develop, these will be failing all the time.

The CI server does it for me.

The worst part of "gitflow w/o feature branches", I believe this is what we are talking about here, is that a defect introduced by any of the teams working on develop will impact all other teams as well.

That is the idea, you want to fail fast to fix it faster.