Usually you have some sort of concept of which branches are rebasable and which aren't. For example, I keep a fork of the canonical repository I work on, and do force-pushes to that all that I want.

Similarly the git development involves many throw-away branches, plus the "next" branch may get rebuilt every time there is a release.

People often say: "don't rewrite public history" but that's a simplification of: "don't rewrite public history unless people should have already known it was going to be rewritten"

If someone checks-out a branch from my private fork instead of from the official repo, they better not complain to me that I rebased it. Similarly if they checkout a branch named throwaway/test-integration-of-foo