> The problem to me seem to be that Git is too powerful. It has many features built in and my guess is that the average dev uses a tiny fraction of them.

I don't understand why that is supposed to be considered a problem.

Everyone has their personal itch, and scratching that itch is more than enough to actually do your work.

No one needs to memorize a whole dictionary before getting to speak with someone.

> The XKCD comic is true, because for most people downloading a fresh copy is far easier than working out how to use git properly.

If a local repository is broken, would it be better to:

a) spend hours trying to debug it, pinpoint the problem, come up with a solution, pray it doesn't affect remote repos

or

b) download another copy?