[lennartregebro]

No, git is not hard because it's powerful. It's hard because it's defaults are non-sensical, and it's user interface are neither close enough to how it's internal mechanics to be predictable, but not far enough from the internal mechanics to provide understandable abstractions.

The result is that it behaves unpredictably and confusingly. And that's a bad UI, no matter how powerful things are below.

"Git developers don't care about newbie users who can't even bother to RTFM."

This is probably true.

"There is just no reason they should."

Yes there is.