Why would you care about code coverage requirements on a branch that is currently in development? My work in progress commits might not build because they don’t even compile, let alone have passing tests. The only time I care about the build passing and meeting requirements is when I’m ready to create the pull request.
Also code coverage is a useless metric, but that’s a different story.
You can blame a lot of todays problems on the founding fathers, but this isn’t one of them IMO. They would have used the states names for their collective nouns.
If you’re actually advocating for change, I think Yankee is a way better term than USians. I can’t imagine people saying USians in a normal conversation, while Yankee rolls off the tounge.