I agree this can be a bit of a pain if you're used to that. There are ways to partially reduce it: 1. use the timeline panel for an individual file to see all the historical changes to a file, and you can highlight multiple ones to see cumulative changes, and you can filter to only git commits or only local changes etc. 2. use the commit history panel in the source control area to do the same across commits, but it doesn't allow you to highlight across commits for cumulative changes

It does require a bit of a paradigm shift sometimes to not rely as much on seeing all cumulative changes for the ticket highlighted as you code, and instead compartmentalize your immediate view to the current commit's task, but often the above 2 alternatives help suffice. Of course, you did mention that you'll commit stuff you're not likely to touch again, which helps a lot too