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by COMMENT___ 1408 days ago
> Git has infinite flexibility in terms of the workflow that teams of people can adopt.

IMO flexibility is just a meaningless buzzword used to describe overly complicated and poorly designed products. If a product has crappy UX, they just call it “developer oriented” and “flexible”.

When I read about “flexibility” of a software product, I think that this product is of low quality. And that I will have to spend some time to make it work for me (hours? days? weeks? years?). To me as a user this flexibility does not matter at all.

The product either works or it doesn’t. If it works, I don’t want to spend a career to learn its internals. I just want it to support my use case and give clear step by step instructions in its documentation.

I better spend my time on something more important than exploring how this or another crappy software product is flexible.