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I understand where you're coming from, but this seems like a terrible defeatist attitude to have.

What are we supposed to do ... throw our hands up because GitHub won?

I'll be down voted, but I'll say it. If you hold that attitude and you don't learn the fundamentals, if you don't understand your tools, you're a bad developer and a poor craftsman. You're not someone I would hire or work with.

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git is not "the fundamentals". It's a tool that's very difficult to learn but we are forced to use because "it won" at some point.

Git's difficulty is NOT intrinsic; it could be a much better tool if Torvalds were better at UX. In short, I don't blame people who don't want to "learn git". They shouldn't have to learn it anymore than one learns to use a browser or Google docs.

Git isn't fundamental, but version control is. If you're doing development without it, you're making a mistake.

You're likely using a VCS, which is likely git (or jj, hg, fossil, tfs, etc).

Therefore, you should know how to use whatever you're using. It shouldn't be "invisible" to you.

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