I can't agree more.
The PR review cycle is not a good fit for MVP (and to internal tools, etc.) . I think, GitOps still can be used if
* You have a sandbox / test environment
* Allow the developers to push directly (no PR) to the branch used for that test environment
So for me it's not about GitOps (having the description of the deployment in git) it's a about the git workflow for these cases (PR review cycle vs pushing directly to branch).
The PR review cycle is not a good fit for MVP (and to internal tools, etc.) . I think, GitOps still can be used if
* You have a sandbox / test environment * Allow the developers to push directly (no PR) to the branch used for that test environment
So for me it's not about GitOps (having the description of the deployment in git) it's a about the git workflow for these cases (PR review cycle vs pushing directly to branch).