[Quekid5]

I tend to think a major contributory factor to the indifference (at best) about commit hygiene is that people vastly underestimate the power of "show commit history for this range of lines" in modern IDEs/GUIs for Git.

It's incredibly powerful for (just from decent commit messages) figuring out why some little detail in the code is the way it is.

I'm thankful every day that I get to mandate Gerrit (so rebased-patches-on-top-of-main) workflow with every individual commit going through CI.

ETA: Incidentally, I'm usually also someone who often gets called in to figure out obscure-yet-important bugs... and the commit log is instrumental to that.