> This is what I find to be weird, personally. When doing a rebase, there’s no way I want to do something else in the middle of it, and having a modal state fee

> This is what I find to be weird, personally. When doing a rebase, there’s no way I want to do something else in the middle of it, and having a modal state feels totally natural to me. When I was pure git, I agreed. Let me reframe your comment: "When working on a feature, there's no way I want to work on some other feature in the middle of it" (which is how many people felt before ever using version control and branches). With jj, I do it all the time. The tool made the difference. A rebase is not something "special". Switching from a rebase to working on another feature in the middle is exactly just like switching to another branch in the middle of working on the current branch. It's the same (or very similar) set of commands. When you realize this, then yeah - leaving in the middle of a rebase is pretty normal, and you wonder why people don't do it.