But you can use your awesome vim skill to feed text into a OpenOffice document, and while the OOo internals are probably 100x more complicated than vim, the user interface for "text on my screen" stays the same, and transition is smooth, even though the internals underneath is vastly different. If git requires 'everyone' to know the internals before they can use it, as opposed to rcs,cvs,svn,perforce users who can more easily flip around between those for most basic usages, then its on git for having a complicated shell around a complicated set of internals.

It would have been nice if there was a simpler shell around the complex machinery for those (us?) who don't want to do crazy stuff, who don't need to be able to do crazy stuff and who could settle for only the simple 90% of the tooling like we do with the alternatives, but are forced to use git for external reasons.