> I'd argue that the reason a lot of developers have not learned git in depth is because it's actually kind of terrible from a UX standpoint

Not really. I remember my early years with git and the favt was that I never needed more than clone, add, commit, pull and push. While I’ve done some mistakes that got ne to learn more, especially with creating branches and undoing. I’ve never needed a lot, even when I started using GUI which exposed more concepts.

Why? Because I have no understanding of version management and how it’s useful in a dev workflow/release process. I was just using it for checking in work.

Since then, I’ve read the “Pro Git” book, learned how devs and teams handle versioning and devel a good understanding of how git can help me in my coding process and general software development. And it’s very good at what it does.