I believe the article misses the mark because it's one sided. unsurprising, since it seems written from the perspective of someone who sees the main unit of value as a pull request.
Collaboration is useless in deterministic predictable environment with a single source of truth. When you deal with lot of ambiguity,constant changes and need to adapt then you have no choice that collaborating and getting a feedback loop.
"There are a few alternatives available. Unfortunately, moving to Firefox may not be a viable option for her, especially given Mozilla’s recent behavior."
The world has gone crazy. So this relative has casually used the most bloated spyware disguised as a browser for literally a decade, but she can't switch to firefox because 'Mozilla’s recent behavior'.
Collaboration is useless in deterministic predictable environment with a single source of truth. When you deal with lot of ambiguity,constant changes and need to adapt then you have no choice that collaborating and getting a feedback loop.
You can win alone, but you can’t lose alone.