I disagree with how difficult merge commits are. It's not something to filter out in your view - it's a representation of an actual change made by combining two

I disagree with how difficult merge commits are. It's not something to filter out in your view - it's a representation of an actual change made by combining two different versions of a document/code/etc... They are valuable indicators in history. Furthermore services like Github add valuable valuable comments like the PR number that was merged.