[maw]

Unfortunately, bzr is still pretty slow at log. It's also slow at branching a remote repo, and subsequent merges or pulls from that remote repo. On the bright side, it used to be unusably slow (for large projects, anyway) when doing things like status, diff, or commit, but these have all become considerably faster in recent releases, so there's hope that the still-slow commands will become fast in the future too.

I agree with you about usability. Nearly everything in bzr just works, which was why I ultimately decided against using hg (no dumb server support? ouch!) or git (where you need to understand its internals far too well in order to get anything done).