There's surprising little time you need to invest before magit starts paying back by decreasing the time you would have previously spent looking at the git documentation for the operations you don't use very often.
Agreed. magit is one of the best pieces of software that I've encountered. Well-deserving of the "porcelain" moniker. Very intuitive, and you can always fall back to CLI if you need to.
All you really, really need is to run magit-status (bind it to a key for convenience) from any `cwd` in your project, and you get a snazzy overview of your outstanding commit. Then hit ?. Should be reasonably clear from there, at least to get started.
If you get confused just go back to the CLI: it's easy to go back and forth, no magic.
You should definitely give it a try. The point of magit is to improve the git experience, not make it more complicated.
Cool. With my remote work situation I've had to give up on local IDEs etc. and am back to emacs (with LSP for C++) so I am going to try to spend some effort to get it to a place where I'm more productive in it.