I’m fine with squash merges for one commit. But otherwise, I consider structuring changes into commits structure too.

My team merges with merge commits which hold the MR description as a commit description, and MR title as commit title.

Individual commits are retained and can describe individual changes, while the MR and merge commit describe the whole changeset.

It’s a very interactive-rebase-heavy workflow (for commit cleanups/structuring when changes are added in review), but it works very well for us.