I personally like this and it fits well with my team's workflow (though I am a bit concerned it will prevent engineers from learning to do these things with git

I personally like this and it fits well with my team's workflow (though I am a bit concerned it will prevent engineers from learning to do these things with git). There are pros and cons for sure but I think if you are losing a lot of resolution by squashing then the scope of your pull requests might be too big in the first place.