[rtpg]

I think the trickiness with the simple abstraction is that you end up looking at a commit graph and thinking "I would like to make a couple new nodes in this in a very specific shape, but one that many people have likely done in the past. Is there a trick?"

Like so much of the porcelain is those kinds of tricks, and make otherwise tedious work much simpler.

Imagine if you didn't have interactive rebases! You could trudge through the work that is done in interactive rebases by hand, but there's stuff to help you with that specific workflow, because it is both complicated yet common.

I think jujutsu is a great layer over git precisely because you end up with much simpler answers to "how do I change up the commit graph", though.... the extra complication of splitting up changes from commits ends up making other stuff simpler IMO. But I still really appreciate git.