I agree with you. A better solution would be to use CI to check the branches (so you know what state you're in) and enforce a test and style pass before a branc

I agree with you. A better solution would be to use CI to check the branches (so you know what state you're in) and enforce a test and style pass before a branch can be merged to master. I don't know why there's such a fear of rebasing, in a lot of situations it's the right way to go. I don't like squashing though, but that's a personal choice - sometimes excessive use of squash can hide the history of why things developed the way they did, and that can sometimes be very useful information.