Comment by DreaminDani

> what are the downsides of having those commits?

In my experience, having to rebase on top of a branch with a lot of "lint" "quick fix" "let's try this" "oops, how about this" can be draining and sometimes lead to accidental code deletion.

I like squash merges because I know it was the author's intended change that I'm merging or rebasing onto.