Rewriting history and breaking N sloppy commits into M well-thought-out, logical commits is an essential git-based version control skill for developers. Thus, interactive rebase should be considered essential for anyone using git for anything non-trivial. It's TUI-like interface is a bit quirky for some people, but it is rock-solid once you figure it out and therefore worth investing a bit of time into learning. (That also describes git in its entirety quite well).