You don't need to rewrite history unless you weren't using LFS or accidently committed large files to the repository. Nothing about LFS "requires" rewriting his

You don't need to rewrite history unless you weren't using LFS or accidently committed large files to the repository. Nothing about LFS "requires" rewriting history. Not to mention, many users are paying for a service that provides LFS, and hosting an LFS service isn't crazy hard. It's a file server with a custom API, it's mostly doable using S3 as a backend. It's not like this is crazy complicated stuff.