I recall converging toward something a lot like git-flow because, especially when there were hot fixes, you might get conflicts rebasing the feature branch and conflicts again merging the feature branches, doing the work twice at least. Additionally, it was so important everyone used the same procedure to accomplish merges or whatnot or else there would be all kinds of problems.

Sometime ago I noticed I hadn't seen this in a while. Is this anyone else's experience? Have people just gotten better at git or was there a major improvement in how git handles this scenario?

If it was about improvements, has anyone written those changes up? It would be fascinating to know how it was done.