[lmm]

> If you need more detail you can rebase as many commits as you like.

You can't rebase to get back to the original commits, not without knowing what they are.

> Imagine trying to bisect some spaghetti bowl of commits with merges to find the source of a recurring issue.

I do it all the time (well, less so now that I work with a better team where those issues are pretty rare), it's easy, that's the whole point of the git bisect command.

> It would be relatively nonsensical compared to a clean linear history.

Rebased history is much harder to bisect because you often get long chain of commits that don't compile or are otherwise broken.