That's pretty exaggerated. I rarely read commit messages from projects where I'm the main (or sole) author. Even after several years of not working on something

That's pretty exaggerated. I rarely read commit messages from projects where I'm the main (or sole) author. Even after several years of not working on something I rarely have difficulties remembering why I did something. And the really weird funky shit tends to be documented by comments. Commit messages are primarily about communicating all of that to others. But if there is no one else to communicate to... Is it a good idea to have all your commit messages as emojis (or blank) even if you're just working on it yourself? Probably not. Will the codebase be "destroyed" by "the end of the month"? Yeah nah.