I do the same thing generally. In fact I generally find multiple mistakes or changes to be made, reading over my own code before merging, requiring figuring out

I do the same thing generally. In fact I generally find multiple mistakes or changes to be made, reading over my own code before merging, requiring figuring out which commit to merge my changes into (git absorb helps in the easy cases) and even more rebasing, or giving up and adding an extra commit at the end. I see some people whose projects (Furnace Tracker, PipeWire, previously Famitudio) seem to make progress very quickly without getting noticeably slowed down by technical debt, despite sloppy programming and unorganized commit logs (push-to-head). Meanwhile I move slowly, dread reviewing hundreds of lines of my own code, and produce technical debt (regrets) anyway, not as many surface-level lintable errors but plenty of entrenched mistakes. I wish I could move faster, but instead struggle to make progress.