Could you explain what you mean by svn being super complicated inside? I presume you mean from a user's not a programmer's perspective; I never found it confusing, ever.
It has it's flaws (tags are writable, unless that's been cured) but it's really pretty good, and far better than git for a beginner IMO.
In Git, no matter how strange the situation, everything is still blobs, trees, commits, and refs. There are very few concepts used in Git, and they're simple and elegant.
SVN to Git is like WordPress to Jekyll - WordPress is easier to use than Jekyll, but Jekyll is simpler than WordPress.
SVN's concepts are straightforward - commit stuff, branch, branches are COW so efficient, history is immutable unlike git (for better or worse) erm, other stuff. Never got confusing.