What's git-commit aside from "We've bizarrely held your changes since the last time you ran this command via an antiquated interface just in case you wanted to

What's git-commit aside from "We've bizarrely held your changes since the last time you ran this command via an antiquated interface just in case you wanted to risk losing them all by accidentally running rm in the wrong directory?" Being able to screw around with things without fear of recovering not being able to recover your original content isn't an outdated concept.