> I was constantly surprised by how many questions I got about something as seemingly simple as the conventional commit format from a crowd of enginerds.

I'm not. Writing code and writing git commit messages take entirely different types of thinking. With code you are having to think logically and problem solve to tell the computer what to do. Git messages are more analogous to writing a term paper (though shorter). You have to think about the what you are trying to communicate, how best to describe what this commit is all about, maybe trying to figure out if this counts as a fix or something else, etc. Writing code is fairly easy for me. Writing git commit messages is extremely difficult for me. I sometimes go days without commiting because I'm dreading having to write a commit message.