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Git branch protection policies weren't created to protect your code from bugs or merge conflicts—they exist because Karen from marketing somehow got write access to main and pushed her "quick fix" that broke production at 4:47 PM on a Friday.
Protected branches are basically the digital equivalent of "we can't have nice things." You need pull request reviews? That's because someone once merged their own code that deleted the entire user database. Require status checks to pass? Yeah, because Jenkins caught Steve's "it works on my machine" masterpiece before it could take down the entire infrastructure.
The real hot take here is that if developers were actually trustworthy and disciplined, we'd all be pushing straight to production like cowboys. But since we live in reality where typos happen and `git push --force` exists, we need these guardrails to save us from ourselves.
