Interesting. At my previous company there was a debate about smaller PRs vs bigger PRs and the end conclusion was that there are tradeoffs in being able to deal with 2-5 bite-sized PRs vs one large PR. The largest one being that it's hard to grasp the totality of the pull request and how the different PRs work together.
> companies don't want to invest in slowing down, only going faster.
I do think this is the way things are going to go moving forward, for better or for worse!