[mikestew]

Let me start by saying that I don't disagree with you what so ever. I do, however, take issue with those other devs you've worked with. To wit:

Most projects/developers here have been around for years

I just made a comment this morning another dev that it occurred to me that the first program I ever wrote was compiled 40 years ago (digression: the reason I brought it up was to ask, "so why the hell do I still make off-by-one errors?"). The period of which I've used source control can be measured in decades. Until recently, the only reason I didn't use source control on a project was because back in the day SCM cost money, money that wasn't always available.

many starting before git was a thing

But, and I'm sure you're well aware so bear with me, source control has been around long before git showed up. The difference now is that git (and CVS and SVN before it) is free, as in beer, speech, whatever. That leaves us with little excuse these days (other than git being a general pain-in-the-ass to use).

Again, I'm not disagreeing with you personally. I guess it really just turned into a rant against lazy devs and/or the glacial organizations for which they work.