I agree with you here. But what you are describing still isn't good enough for a lot of people, because even though `--first-parent` hides the noise it's still

I agree with you here. But what you are describing still isn't good enough for a lot of people, because even though `--first-parent` hides the noise it's still there and just knowing there's a mess under the rug is enough to be problematic. I don't think it's really the fault of the tooling, moreso with what is a common interpretation of what is a mess and what isn't. If the github commit history allowed you to show `--first-parent` maybe it would be less of a problem.