[whstl]

As someone who dives in the commit story often:

If it's a pristine, linear, commit story, sure.

If it includes merges commits, "fix" commits, commits that do more than one thing, detours, side-quests, unrelated refactors then squashing is 100x better.

[g-b-r]

Merge commits allow you to nest series of commits, they're far from always bad