You're not a curmudgeon, you're just wrong. As another comment states, you'd have to fix the merge conflict anyways and if there's no merge conflict, your rebas

You're not a curmudgeon, you're just wrong. As another comment states, you'd have to fix the merge conflict anyways and if there's no merge conflict, your rebase isn't an issue. If you're getting merge conflicts and need to rebase your project and that's challenging, it turns out to be an...organizational issue.