> The average web developer writing Ruby or Node in Atom on their Macbook Pro

It does not matter who it was designed for, git is the de-facto VCS that almost everyone uses today. And people are having trouble using it because there is no better alternative: it is fast and powerful and used by many companies.

But it's UX is terrible: I use git for 10 years and I have to Google every time I need to make a branch tracking a remote one. git reset does different things based on what type of object you pass.

This has nothing to do with knowing how internals work, it is a question of consistency and providing a small non-overlapping set of tools to do my job.