Didn't you say that you used feature branches? If so, that was a case where Gerrit failed and you had to use git in an almost normal way.

How is that Gerrit failing? Gerrit is designed to support all kinds of workflows, just like Git. As far as I can tell, we're using our various tools the way they were intended. Just because it doesn't line up with your exact view on how Git should be used, doesn't mean we're doing something wrong (or "insane").

This is a boring conversation.

If it's boring, why were you trying to defend such a suboptimal use of git?