[jstimpfle]

> Less and less people feel it, because people old-enough to have used branch-powered VCSes have long forgotten about them, and those who didn't forget are under-represented in comparison to the newcomers who never have experienced anything else since git became a monopoly.

I'm old enough to have used SVN (and some CVS) and let me tell you branching was no fun, so much that we didn't really do it.