[tryingtogetback]

For me, as a dentist, I used to use the dental drill, but now I trust my janitor to handle it, this way I make less mistakes myself

My job as a dentist isn't to use dental drill, it's to fix teeth in general. If I managed to fix a tooth and customer is happy, it doesn't matter whether I use drill myself or janitor does. Imagine having 100 complex things bouncing around your head and having to make that 101 when you forget the order of drill bits you need for a root canal.

The guy who knows dental drilling backwards is welcome to apply for a job managing dental drills or something if such a thing exists? But I could harp on the same way about his missing medical or braces-training skills.

[zarzavat]

It's more like getting the dental assistant to operate the autoclave.

[tryingtogetback]

Endless opportunity for analogies here. The gist is that you are delegating all sensitive versioning and versioning history management operations to a 3rd party with extremely limited capabilities, 3rd party you know nothing about (effectively a black box).

We thrive on abstractions, but unfortunately in case with versioning and git in particularly, GUI apps is a wrong one.

[aniforprez]

Your analogy is completely awful

The janitor knows nothing about dentistry. The git GUI knows plenty about it and the devs make it their job to know it too. A janitor is not an abstraction, he's a liability. If a GUI abstraction helps me get the job done faster, I really don't see the problem. Plus almost every one of them fully state the commands being used to perform every action and have logs you can parse. I used to use Sublime Merge and now use Fork and both have this

[tryingtogetback]

You are contradicting yourself and making my point for me.

janitor is an abstraction (you trust a janitor to operate with a professional tool for you) and you are completely right, git GUIs (just like a janitor) are a liability.

[aniforprez]

Your analogy is awful because there literally is a better analogue. A dental assistant. Someone who actually knows dentistry and can help with some of the simpler tasks to leave the dentist to concentrate on the actual surgery. You basically tried to fit a square hole in a round peg with your "analogy" to make your terrible point

[aetherspawn]

If your janitor makes the client happy maybe he should retrain as a dentist?