Sigh.

Rebase is very useful:

* pre-processing step to a merge. The developer can see that the merge to main will be successful.

* when the branch has cherry picked commits from main, those cherry picks will disappear from the feature branch's commit list.

* rebase also includes the ability to combine commits (get rid of all those WIP commits)

* rebase allows reorder of commits.

rebase is so so much more than just rearrange commit pointers in some "bad" ways.

Failure to include functionality just invites my old fallback when a rebase fails badly.

git checkout main;

git checkout -b new_branch;

git diff -R old_branch | git apply;

git add -A ;

git commit

Removing a tool just invites developers to work around the gap.