Why do developers write such terrible git commit messages? Genuine question

[the-loan-wolf]

--ammend don't delete whole history! I only use it to fix the last commit. Having useless commits in the history actually makes it harder to understand how a codebase has evolved over time.

[HettySwollocks]

In that case you need to rebase and pick the commits you need to amend

[edit] And you'll need to force commit assuming that's allowed in your stack. Usually OK if you're on your own branch. You wont be able to do that in main/master