The proliferation of "git tips", and "my git habits", "git best practices" articles, make me think that Git is too complicated for its own good to need all those.

(Maybe "need" is a bad choice of words: maybe it doesn't need those articles, but it's too complicated if it gets to have them. You don't get such avalanche of advice for a simple, no BS, tool).

Now, the complicated part means it's flexible --in the rare cases you need it to be. But it could probably use a facade that makes the common use cases more intuitive (there are some half-baked attempts that I'm aware of).

Personally, I use mercurial.