I programmed for a long time (middle school to the end of college) on 1 person or 2 person projects without version control. I'd just manually copy the director

I programmed for a long time (middle school to the end of college) on 1 person or 2 person projects without version control. I'd just manually copy the directory when I'd made significant progress, or wanted to experiment with a different approach. Multi-person collaboration happened by working out who would work on what ahead of time and manually merging the bits back together. It worked great, and even though I now use git for even personal projects, I'm not sure it's on balance useful, along the lines of your thinking. Because: VC warps your thinking. You change your work habits and spend time crafting this artifact, the VC commit history, which is secondary to your actual goal. For example, there's a tendency to quickly jump between different areas, or make unrelated changes, because that works against the nice 'commit-per-thing' history that looks nice in VC. So no VC doesn't seem so crazy to me :)