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> For every branch, a PR must be opened, code must be reviewed, full test suite must be ran, the testers must ok that the change does not require extending the test suite, and only finally after the whole ordeal we're ok to merge.

Surely this isn't true for local branches on your machine? I hope you're not living under such a dystopia.

But this process is small and fast when your branches are small and fast.

Code reviews length takes exponentially longer and misses way more when branches are "big and meaty"

It should be small and fast, but depending on where you work it isn't. And trying to get a big corp to adapt to you is like trying to boil the ocean.

Just create the branch locally for your incremental changes and then when you are done, connect the remote repository to initiate the PR.