Problem is there are open source projects where PRs with multiple commits are not allowed. Not much choice but to rebase in that case. I struggled with it a lot at first but haven't had any issues more recently. But personally I'd rather not use it, and don't on other repos I work on. Btw I'd say if you've never had issues with git it's because you've never been forced to do a shallow clone (due to networking issues) or run out of disk space while using it. Had to blow away and reclone repos many times in both cases, but only after hours struggling with cryptic and unpredictable error messages.