This is because "vegetable" is purely a culinary term. There's no botanical definition of a vegetable. Tomatoes are berries, which is a type of fruit, from a botanical standpoint. So are cucumbers. They're both vegetables from a culinary standpoint. Lettuce is a leaf. Broccoli is a flower. Carrots are roots. Celery is a stalk. All vegetables culinarily.
That seems reasonable to perform on protected branches, but I'm not a fan of protecting all branches. That could leave valuable code with a single copy on a dev machine. I'd rather have it pushed to an unprotected branch and then be checked on merge instead of push.
Fix your shit and it won't stop you from committing.
It's also usually only on certain branches, so you can make a branch where you break things and then fix them before you merge to testing/main/whatever.
Only when I leave the house, which I don't most days, since I work from home. People who need to change more frequently (I can't imagine that e.g. roofers can wear the same pants even twice) could still leave things in their pockets and move them over either when they get undressed or when they get dressed (I imagine the former, leaving your wallet and keys in the fresh pair, would be especially important if you get very dirty).
At this point, you could just tell them it's fake and get a decent amount of the population on board. Permanent utopia in perfect VR? Sign me the fuck up.
I just leave my shorts or pants (depending on weather) hanging on the back of the door with everything still in the pockets (except my phone). I change them once a week or as needed and just transfer the stuff when I'm putting on the fresh pair.
You should look up what actual communists think instead of listening to capitalist propaganda on what communists think. In short, communism is a stateless, classless, moneyless society. The best well-known analogy is the Federation from Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Skip Intro has a good series about this.