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There is one place where large pull requests are essential:

In dysfunctional orgs with enormous code review time per PR, with lots of nitpicking, and a CI/CD pipeline that is constantly broken and takes a LONG time to get things into a staging environment.

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Maybe I’m just hopelessly cynical, but I suspect that this is representative of the average developer’s experience.

In large corps it could be yes. In smaller and more nimble companies/start ups, there's a lot of good pipelines.

and then you send it to your friend on the weekend for a blind approval? :P

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