[NeutralCrane]

This is the kind of thing where the extent to which people get worked up over it far exceeds the benefit of actually doing so.

Is it theoretically possible that people can write good commit messages without a framework? Yes. Does that work out in practice across entire teams? No. Any kind of a convention for commit messages is an improvement.

Beyond that, type > scope vs scope > type or whatever is splitting hairs. The juice of that debate is not worth the squeeze.