[edanm]

> It wasn't nearly as bad as people today make it out to be

This flies in the face of my personal experience (first 7 years in industry was before Git adoption), and also in the face of what most developers at the time said.

I mean, just look at Joel Spolsky, one of the most popular developer-bloggers, who also founded StackOverflow, Trello and other things. IIRC, he wrote a blog post calling the invention of DVCSs the most important innovation of the last decade of innovations, then he put his money where his mouth is by creating a new product specifically built around the idea of DVCSs. (Though he made a "bad bet" by focusing on Mercurial instead of git, IIRC.)