[sanderjd]

It makes sense for old timers to keep just doing it the way we always have, but I wonder how newcomers to version control are being taught. I would really hope they aren't just being thrown a bunch of these inscrutable commands by their leads, like when I learned it!

[htfu]

Judging by my colleagues (whether more or less experienced than me), "whatever the GUI allows for".

Yes, almost the entire company runs on the subset of git presented by Visual Studio and Azure DevOps. I would guess this is more and more common, and even the more obvious shortcuts available for many things through git itself will become more and more arcane.