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.

You can win alone, but you can’t lose alone.