[jayd16]

I think its just people protecting their egos and hiding their dev process. I've never been reading the commit history and thought, "boy I wish these were squashed." Much more often I wish commits were in smaller more reviewable bites.

I understand why its there. People want to sweep the details away. I feel it about my own commits as well. However, if I have to go back and read the history, I'd much rather read the ground truth.