Now, I am not a programmer so I get to chose my tools all by myself without any peer preassure. In my early days I managed to destroy quite a lot (as in: counted in hours) of work with git. I switched to hg at the same time as my source control usage became more advanced, and I haven't managed to fuck anything up since.

Now, I last used git extensively in 2011, and I have heard things have gotten better on the UX front. But now I am used to HG and don't have many reasons to switch. I gladly pay 20 bucks a year for having a place for mercurial repos.