Stop Using Conventional Commits

The article argues that Conventional Commits, a widely-used commit message standard, is fundamentally flawed because it prioritizes commit type (fix, feat, etc.) over scope, which is backwards for developers who need to understand what areas of code were changed. The author contends that scope is more critical for contributors, debuggers, and incident responders, yet Conventional Commits makes scope optional while forcing type to the front of messages, and that commit type is often redundant since the description typically conveys this information anyway.