I see this the same way. Like the notion that purely cosmedic changes should be committed distinctly in order to not clutter up commits that change behavior (so

I see this the same way. Like the notion that purely cosmedic changes should be committed distinctly in order to not clutter up commits that change behavior (so they are simpler to read), it makes sense to me that one would commit entirely new units of code separately before re-wiring the logic of the existing code accordingly. That way the first commit basically states "I've built this new thing", and I don't have to consider 300 random existing codepoints in understanding what it does.