I'm not saying git rebase -i shouldn't be interactive. I'm saying that there are workflows that that don't necessarily need to be interactive, where git rebase

I'm not saying git rebase -i shouldn't be interactive. I'm saying that there are workflows that that don't necessarily need to be interactive, where git rebase -i is the only way to do it (ok, maybe you could build something with lower level plumbing commands, but you would have to duplicate quite a bit of logic that is in git rebase).