git is only complicated because it lets you do everything you may possibly want to do, often a superset of what you actually want to do.

If you want svn-like commands, you can borrow someone's scripts or use a shiny GUI. I don't want svn-like commands because centralized version control is obnoxious.

Don't complain because it's hard. Programming is hard, math is hard, and if you know how languages, data structures, and algorithms work, git is actually pretty easy in comparison.