At my work we often do a lot of “pre-commits” for projects that require any significant amount of work. A pre-commit is usually pure moving/repackaging of code or small re-writes to how we do things now to make the PR (or PRs) for the actual feature the most straightforward and pure business-logic-only changes that we can. So, I usually tell people we rarely refactor, but maybe we do kinda what you’re recommending here.
At my work we often do a lot of “pre-commits” for projects that require any significant amount of work. A pre-commit is usually pure moving/repackaging of code or small re-writes to how we do things now to make the PR (or PRs) for the actual feature the most straightforward and pure business-logic-only changes that we can. So, I usually tell people we rarely refactor, but maybe we do kinda what you’re recommending here.