Is that even a bad thing? If people are familiar with git --- its command syntax, its commit model, its collaboration setup --- why not let them keep using this model? Isn't it better for everyone if we put a few hundred people on targeted scalability fixes for git instead of making a few million people drop productive work and learn a new tool?

I mean, most of the people in industry today have known no character encoding except ASCII and its supersets --- and that's a good thing!