Why does Django make migrations for help_text and verbose_name changes?

You can squash it with the previous migration, sure.

Or if you don’t want to output those migrations at all, you can override the makemigrations and migrate command by putting this in management/commands/makemigrations.py in your app:

from django.core.management.commands.makemigrations import Command
from django.db import models

IGNORED_ATTRS = ['verbose_name', 'help_text', 'choices']

original_deconstruct = models.Field.deconstruct

def new_deconstruct(self):
  name, path, args, kwargs = original_deconstruct(self)
  for attr in IGNORED_ATTRS:
    kwargs.pop(attr, None)
  return name, path, args, kwargs

models.Field.deconstruct = new_deconstruct