It's not worse. Snapshots are exactly what you want if you would like to have format-aware diff/merge or to experiment with alternate algorithms. But it's easi

It's not worse. Snapshots are exactly what you want if you would like to have format-aware diff/merge or to experiment with alternate algorithms. But it's easier to complain about git and throw out pie-in-the-sky ideas about "modernizing our tools" than to try the actually-existing AST-based diff/merge tools and realize it's 100x more complex for no workflow gain.