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managed in the sense that values keep getting thrown onto the pile and then people somehow manage to never think about or touch them ever again regardless of their temporary nature

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This is the real problem in my experience. Creating flags is easy, removing them isn’t. We ended up building lifecycle tracking for it: each flag type has an expected lifetime, flags get marked potentially stale when they pass it, and you can see when a flag was last evaluated in each environment so you know it’s safe to delete. Someone still has to remove the code though :)

No, it gives you one pretty heavy way to not throw things into a pile. It doesn't keep people from making a mess anyway.

If you have the discipline to use this thing, you have the discipline to manage things yourself without this thing.

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