[rmtech]

A theme that comes out again and again in the comments here is that in a technical community, complaining that a tool could be better is a reliable signal of a dumb/lazy worker.

At the same time, many tools could actually be a lot better and if we all magically traveled 50 years into the future we would find all these better tools and see that it wasn't only the dumb/lazy people who used them - it would be everyone. For example, how many people write applications in low-level languages like assembler today? Not many - but at one point that was the only option and anyone who complained about it would be labelled as a lazy worker.

The signalling aspect of this certainly distorts the discussion, but bear this in mind:

It is simultaneously true that git is a tool with a poor interface and a bunch of warts AND every aspiring developer should do the work and learn it in detail so they can use that knowledge to signal to people that they're not lazy and/or dumb (and the lazy/dumb people - even knowing this - will not do it, so the signal works).