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>In larger projects, a single commit is rarely pushed alone.

When I say a commit message, I mean the thing that ends up in the source history when the change is merged. So if you're doing squash and merge, then the commit message that matters is the PR title + description.

For teams that just merge everything including commits like "wip" and "address notes from code review", their commit history is a mess anyway, so they have bigger fish to fry.

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I still think that your argument of "conveying most important information first" is really something that should be tackled through the title, but I agree with the rest.

Oh, I agree that the most important information should go in the title. Did I give the impression that it shouldn't?

Perhaps not. On closer inspection, the inverted pyramid reference does seem to support the claim anyways. Sorry! I really need to read better.

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