Most people don't care about most stuff, it's pretty normal.
But here specifically: Most developers don't read code, nor documentation, and essentially no one reads commit messages. VCS is a WOLM - write-only linear memory - to most developers. That's probably also why most people don't care to write any kind of reasonable commit message - the software requires them to input something, so something is input - and also do not care about unreadable (and also unusable) VCS histories. They're never looking at it, it's only written. Hence it's meaningless for them if it is extremely difficult to trace changes or hard to bisect, they don't even attempt such things. There's a reason the history browsers in all the online tools and IDEs effin suck, it's because on average nobody uses history.
I know, I know, this gets across very elitistically, but it's just how most people do their jobs. They get bugged to do a thing, so they sort of do the thing in order to not be bugged any more about it. I'm pretty sure that caring for these things is some kind of OCD like you say, i.e. a mental disorder.
Most people don't care about most stuff, it's pretty normal.
But here specifically: Most developers don't read code, nor documentation, and essentially no one reads commit messages. VCS is a WOLM - write-only linear memory - to most developers. That's probably also why most people don't care to write any kind of reasonable commit message - the software requires them to input something, so something is input - and also do not care about unreadable (and also unusable) VCS histories. They're never looking at it, it's only written. Hence it's meaningless for them if it is extremely difficult to trace changes or hard to bisect, they don't even attempt such things. There's a reason the history browsers in all the online tools and IDEs effin suck, it's because on average nobody uses history.
I know, I know, this gets across very elitistically, but it's just how most people do their jobs. They get bugged to do a thing, so they sort of do the thing in order to not be bugged any more about it. I'm pretty sure that caring for these things is some kind of OCD like you say, i.e. a mental disorder.