Agreed, I certainly don't advocate squashing more commits than necessary! The granular, the better. As I mentioned, I'll often tease apart separate commits out of something that I originally stuffed into a single commit: whitespace changes, add some comments, fix a bug, all separate even if they started out as one commit.

I just don't find it useful to see every commit when someone uses Git like I do, committing all sorts of intermediate broken work while experimenting. Especially not commits that are going to be broken regardless.