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It works fine for a small team (probably three people or fewer), especially when you're still building the product and don't have it deployed yet. Breaking things isn't a major concern at that point. After people have started using your code, or if you hire a bunch of developers, then you probably want to be more careful.

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Actually, it works really fine with 30 developers as well. Even from different companies. Did that a couple of times and it was always way better then having a lot of long living branches. I'd say branches don't scale with team size.

In the end it's a matter of your project and trust. If you're doing an in house project it's great.

I find it strange how many people can't even imagine working like that, when it does work so well. It's probably a thing you have to experience to see.

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