[eikenberry]

> I was a happy mercurial user until market forces and consulting needs made me, regrettably, use the inferior, more complex, more error-prone git.

IMO Mercurial did a lot of this to themselves. I also preferred it at first but switched away from it due to their stance on no in-repo branching. They, of course, also lost due to git's author and network effects (github), but it wasn't all just "market forces".