When/how to comment is an art in itself, in no conflict to what I wrote.

While it's often said that comments should capture the "why" of code, I don't usually think that ought to extend to "cuz ticket#" except when that ticket number is an significant bug/limitation that explains a nasty hack.

Noting each feature ticket that ever affected a line--or even just at the function level--is sort of like maintaining a few thousand incomplete micro-changelogs. Doing it "acceptably well" takes much more effort than grooming the commit history so that someone can click "show change history for selected lines" in their IDE.

Plus consider all the unnecessary noise it makes for people reading the code, or reviewing a PR.

No, it's not difficult (cut/paste), nor a burden for reading in comments or docstrings. Could be measured in seconds instead of hours massaging history.

Also, you seem to be under the misconception history doesn't exist because it wasn't massaged, which is false.

And the commit message is an amazing place to put that.

Not if you want them read by non-developers.

Why would you have non-developers reading code?