The drawback is the fact that changes to the commit history of the master branch are often rejected by tools like GitLab and GitHub due to the possibility that a master git rebase can negatively ...

When your git commit history gets long in the tooth, and you want to clean up your feature and topic branches before the merge to master, you’ll need the facilities of the Git squash commit feature.

I can't merge changes from master because there isn't an initial commit yet. If I commit, it overwrites (?) master and I can't merge changes into the past; everything is overwritten.