alt Hacker Newshg sees history as useful metadata, and therefore you shouldn't dress it up artificially.
git allows for folks to be Pinky's out with their commit history for warm an fuzzies.
If you think editing history is a grand idea that should be used regularly (like with rebase) then I already know you likely haven't been responsible for large mature code base. Where you'd rather have every comment, change and scrap of info available to understand what you're trying to maintain because the folks before you are long gone.
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When using systems without history editing I simply make an order of magnitude fewer commits. With git I basically commit every few minutes and then edit later, and with not-git I simply don't commit until it's "ready". Either way all of those intermediate states aren't getting published or saved forever.
There's a huge divide between abusing rebase in horrible ways to modify published history, and using it to clean up a patch series you've been working on.
Oops, I made a mistake two commits ago, I'd really like to get some dumb print statements I added out before I send this off to get merged is perfectly valid, I just did it yesterday. A quick `git commit --fixup` followed by `git rebase -i --autosquash HEAD^3` and I had some dumb debugging code I left in stripped out.
Then, there's other perfectly valid uses of rebase, like a simple `git rebase main` in an active development branch to reparent my commits on the current HEAD instead of having my log messed up with a dozen merge commits as I try to keep the branch both current and ready to merge.
So, yes, I do think editing history is a grand idea that should be used regularly. It lets me make all the stupid "trying this" and "stupid bug" commits I want, without polluting the global history.
Or, are you telling me you've also never ended up working on two separate tasks in a branch, thinking they would be hard to separate into isolated changes, and they ended up being more discrete than you expected so you could submit them as two separate changes with a little help from `git cherry-pick` and `git rebase` too?
Editing history isn't evil. Editing history such that pulls from your repository break? That's a different story entirely.