I don’t understand the dislike of rebase — do you want hundreds of commits that say “linter fix” and “reformatting”?

If there’s commits like “fixed off by one issue in refactor” then it should be a comment in the code so that future will explorers won’t make the same mistake.

Rebase by itself isn’t bad, it just has to contain a good description of what was done and why.

Edit: after posting I realize that I confounded rebase and squash — which is kind of ingrained in my head as that’s how I use GitHub to merge PRs.