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Most of those 10 squashed commits likely had commit comments like: "Cleanup based on PR feedback." etc.

That's what --amend and --fixup are for.

Which wreaks havoc with githubs shitty code review tool.

Which is an argument against GitHub, not clean commit history

Yep. Rebase rewrites history and all the PR review comments vanish.

Gitlab seems fine with it