> I'm not entirely sure that gating vs flagging should be defined differently

I think that's the point of the article.

"feature flags" = "gates" = "circuit breakers" = "knobs"? really?

> This was a problem especially for newer engineers, who would get (unsurprisingly) confused as to whether they should be using one or the other, and even senior engineers would regularly forget that the flag they’re looking for is actually a gate (happened to me five times a week). Ideally, these would be just be one concept

That's what you get when you try to be clever with your vocabulary rather than using longer and less ambiguous terms