[IgorPartola]

That is literally what I advocate you do for the main branch. A feature branch is allowed to have WIP commits that make sense for the developer working on the branch just like uncommitted code might not be self contained because it is WIP. Once the feature is complete, squash it into one commit and merge it into main. There is very little value to those WIP commits (rare case being when you implement algorithm X but then change to Y and later want to experiment with X again).

[bathwaterpizza]

One downside of squash merging is that when you need to split your work across branches, so that they're different PRs, but one depends on the other, then you have to do a rebase after every single one which had dependencies is merged.

[IgorPartola]

When that happens I essentially pick one of the branches as the trunk for that feature and squash merge into that, test it, then merge a clean history into main.