Because unfortunately, network effects, Torvalds' influence and the rise of Github made a tool which is a UI nightmare, and only really makes sense for really advanced users, displace all the alternatives.
And we now have plenty of people who would just need a knife to cut fruit, and are instead cutting their fruit with a surgery-grade remote-controlled high-precision cutting robot, and spending lots of hours learning the fine detail on how to operate such a robot (trying to get by with only 4 or 5 buttons of the hundreds of buttons and knobs in the robot, but often failing and needing to look at the manual to undo their errors), because you need to upload your fruit "surgery-grade-remote-controlled-high-precision-cutting-robot-fruit-hub" if you want it to have visibility.
Hg is much more intuitive and I'd say 90% of git users would be happier in an alternative timeline where it had triumphed. Darn, even SVN was much more intuitive UI wise, even if of course it falls short on functionality these days.
And we now have plenty of people who would just need a knife to cut fruit, and are instead cutting their fruit with a surgery-grade remote-controlled high-precision cutting robot, and spending lots of hours learning the fine detail on how to operate such a robot (trying to get by with only 4 or 5 buttons of the hundreds of buttons and knobs in the robot, but often failing and needing to look at the manual to undo their errors), because you need to upload your fruit "surgery-grade-remote-controlled-high-precision-cutting-robot-fruit-hub" if you want it to have visibility.
Hg is much more intuitive and I'd say 90% of git users would be happier in an alternative timeline where it had triumphed. Darn, even SVN was much more intuitive UI wise, even if of course it falls short on functionality these days.