Trunk-based development, by itself, is a fool's errand.

But combine it with TDD & pairing and it becomes a license to deliver robust features at warp speed.

I don’t follow. Regardless of where you merge, are you not developing features on a shared branch with others? Or do you just have a single long development branch and then merge once “you’re done” and hope that there’s no merge conflicts? But regardless, I’m missing how reviews are being done.