[user5994461]

Correction: Most company workflows did not use branching and mandatory code review because they started 10+ years ago and that was not widespread practice at the time... for a variety of reasons.

Usability has always been a problem as well as tooling support (merging algorithms really used to suck and generate conflicts all over the place, not specific to SVN or to git). Git made some things easier and some things harder. I'd personally rather have a sane command line interface (that I use every day) than the ability to track a rename twice a year.