"Maybe the little bit of extra friction when you do want to push a branch is worth it for all the times you do not have to consciously move a branch backwards to avoid pushing changes you are not yet ready to share."

Very True.

This whole article really makes me miss mercurial. No need to create branches all the time, very rarely needing rebase -i, revsets, simple commands, those were the days! I'm almost afraid to give jj a try because I'll fall in love and probably lose it again and have to go back to git