I don’t get your git strategy - don’t you work with other people and have code reviews? And it’s not like branching means more things in progress - you can work on one dev/feature branch at a time.
I use trunk-based development too and it's not the same as avoiding branches and working on the main branch. With trunk-based you still do all of your work on a branch - the difference between trunked-based and gitflow is how long the side branches live and where releases happen from.
I work alone. Yes, it means mostly working on a single thing, with only a few minor commits in between.
I have a similar workflow. I’m the only programmer in my office and just use git to make my life easier.