This generally sums up why I prefer Mercurial. It provides all the benefits of a distributed VCS, but with less of the complexity, at the expense of some (usually unneeded, at least for me) flexibility.
That having been said, while I wish git were easier, I can cope with it. I can't cope with both git and mercurial. I haven't got the brain capacity to remember how to use both of them without them blurring together. I want to standardize on one or the other. And once I ask which to standardize on, git wins by simple market share. That's why I ended up choosing it over mercurial.
Difficult to take what you say seriously when you make comments like this.
Windows support was a big deciding factor.
And there are very high costs to heterogeneity in this world. Using a weird SCM means that every new contributor needs to learn a new tool and new workflow, and that hurts. Using the one that "everyone" knows is a big advantage to projects.
And git is good. Not "the best" perhaps; and undeniably ugly in places. But it's more than good enough. And the existence of a community like github make it, frankly, better for new users than other options.