I can't help but feel like you don't understand a work flow that utilizes rebase in a responsible way. In particular you seem to think that the rebase is going

I can't help but feel like you don't understand a work flow that utilizes rebase in a responsible way. In particular you seem to think that the rebase is going to affect the history of a released version of your software (When did the bug happen?). Nobody is suggesting that rebase be used to change the history of a released or published branch (master, develop etc.). If that is your concern and the reason for you not trusting a "rebaser" then you are simply mistaken, you are arguing against an imaginary workflow for which no one is advocating. Rebase should be used only to curate the commits on a feature branch and to keep the feature branch synchronized with the upstream branch.