It certainly helps me when splitting, comparing and picking changes between branches. Also to keep track of how upstreams have changed compared to my working br

It certainly helps me when splitting, comparing and picking changes between branches. Also to keep track of how upstreams have changed compared to my working branch before doing rebases. Oh, and re Githubs fork view (which could be improved on the UI side), is helpful when seeing if anyone else has picked up the ball on unmaintained repos. If you don't find it useful, fine, I don't think we all need to grok each others personal workflows and motivate them to each other? Maybe you can compare it to a visual file manager that visualizes your directory structure as a tree; some people find it a necessity to get an overview of their file system, some don't.