I personally look more often at past commits, but I've still never really had a need to scan a list of changes like this. I really don't see the point of the ad

I personally look more often at past commits, but I've still never really had a need to scan a list of changes like this. I really don't see the point of the advantage they're claiming, even if it's real. What I normally do is, while investigating a tricky bug and finding some lines that don't make sense, look through history to see why those lines were introduced (to see if they fix something else), and perhaps when (to see which versions may be affected by a hard-to-reproduce bug). But that typically pinpoint a commit already, and I just need the commit message to explain why it was there.