I wouldn't say "programmers who use version control" are a group of people who would qualify as "specialists". Especially since all programmers should be using version control. It should be a fundamental skill necessary to entering the field.

I'm quite adept at driving an excavator. I can pour wine out of the bucket of an excavator. It's quite easy with practice because muscle memory kicks in.

But if excavators were as hard to use as git, I'd never have mastered them.