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Why don't people use git properly?
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Squashing is good because otherwise you have commits that are unreviewed and broken in your main branch which confounds git bisect, which is largely the only time most people even look at commit history
Largely yes, but also having it squashed requires better commit messages and comments to show what was done for what reason. But yes, bisect is the only reason I'm fine with squashing
It seems for some reason you assume people have better discipline for commit messages made in the course of a branch that will be merged, but that's absolutely not true as a general rule. Additionally, even if the squashed commit message is bad, it will at least correspond to a PR in the forge.
Yeah, some commit messages are very not good either