> Ideally, reduces cognitive complexity because you don't have to think about the staging area anymore, just commits. My git use is mostly a direct translation

> Ideally, reduces cognitive complexity because you don't have to think about the staging area anymore, just commits. My git use is mostly a direct translation of mercurial (which I learned first), and the staging area is really optional. The only time I ever type `git add` is when adding a new file; otherwise I just vi foo.txt git commit foo.txt every time. I guess jj is different still (by way of ~autocommitting), but my point stands.