Jujutsu: a new, Git-compatible version control system

Hmm. The version of Magit I've experimented with allowed me to unstage hunks and delete them from commits, and allows me to create a commit directly from the unstaged changes. Under the hood, it did a rebase operation in the process, but from my perspective it was completely transparent; Magit hid this from me.

From my perspective, Magit is completely hiding the staging area from existence - there's something that behaves just like any other commit, and is called the "staging area", and there's unstaged changes which also behave just like any other commit, but are also present in the working copy on disk, but otherwise Magit makes the differences go away, and just works in terms of moving hunks between the various places in the forest of VCS commits I could see. Perhaps you've configured Magit to be more explicit about the staging area? My configuration for Magit is quite large, and has built up over the last decade.