so how do you handle the "undo make a change and no longer can redo" conundrum? Just have the branches in the tree of edits laid out flat in chronological order so that in order to bring changes back from the past you go to an earlier time, copy and then paste the changes to the alternative branch in the present?

Idk I do think version control is probably a much better tool to sanely manage rapid workflow when working at scale on huge projects, I just think the problem is that there too many features and far to few people who actually take the time to learn how to use them effectively.

To prove my point, the awk tool is super powerful and solves many "quality of life" problems developers begrudgingly deal with on a daily basis over and over again.

Now lets see a raise of hands of people in here that can actually write an awk script one liner without referring to the manual?

We have all these wonderful tools but most of us are too spoiled by having a mouse and powerful editors that we don't ever learn how to use them to improve our performance as developers.