"Any branching model you choose is ultimately meant to make humans work together more easily to produce software"
There are things in this article I agree with, and things that I don't, but the quoted point is something that I wish could be universally understood. Some developers commit to the dogma of one blog post or another and forget about the fact that the whole thing is for the _people_ who are writing the code. Branching strategy should help to optimize workflows and minimize friction, regardless of how badly bastardized your approach is vs. its source material.