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I'm sorry but someone who is unable to determine problems with a tool they've used for 7 years is a huge red flag. That sort of blindness to frustrations is legitimately a massive problem in this field.

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But I never get frustrated with git. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I've encountered people who use features like rebase because they like to keep history "tidy" (I assume?), I think it introduces unnecessary complexity and IMO history should kept as-is, it's history after all.

If you find that easy, please list some specific flaws of git. None of that "it's like, confusing, man".

of the top of my head there's handling of binaries, shallow clones, submodule support, subdirectory clones

Git is the only software where the need for learning its internals is recommended

It is a sign of huge failure of API design

If ppl need to spend tens of hours to learn letters management app then it has terrible api and ux

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