> like binding a macro to the MS Word save button to make it conditional

You have no idea how much I'd love that feature. Inasmuch as "save" is still a thing anyway. I don't miss explicit saves in IDEA, I see commit as the "real" save operation now, and I don't mind being able to hook that in an IDE-independent way.

I think the UX of git hooks has been sub-par for sure, but tools like the confusingly named pre-commit are helping there.

Because if you haven’t auto-formatted, lined, etc. then it’s a very easy way to do that so you don’t waste time watching CI fail for something stupid like trailing comma placement.

I don’t want to think about formatting, I just want everything to be consistent. A pre commit hook can run those tools for me, and if any changes occurred, it can add them to the commit.