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> if the current state in the test environment isn't good, you either have to wait for it to be fixed, or to roll back all possibly bad new commits before you can enable the feature.

This is a symptom of long release cycles. The more work you “save up” to deploy all at once, the more difficult deployments become. Everything becomes much easier when you minimise unreleased work.

When you're trying to triage a production problem or explain what happened between Saturday and today, orthogonality isn't a feature, it's a challenge to be overcome.

> Another feature of feature flags is that a non-coder can toggle them.

This is not a feature, and it will get you called in during the weekend at some point.