You have to look at it from the workflow side not compare the tool on your current git workflow. Check out https://www.stacking.dev for a description of stacked commits, which is more the everyday workflow on jj than the octopus in this article.

> If using a tool doesn't speak to you, git is adding more support for stacking every day. The new --update-refs option lets you update a stack with fewer rebases; however, parts of the stacking process are still tedious (i.e. opening PRs on GitHub or any other provider).

This doesn't seem to be entirely up-to-date: http://github.github.com/gh-stack