I would recommend, as a general rule, not generalizing from your development experience to everyone's development experiences. What's interesting here is that

I would recommend, as a general rule, not generalizing from your development experience to everyone's development experiences. What's interesting here is that it's the exact thing happening. Someone asked about how much hidden cost there is from the time people waste fighting to make git do what they need it to do, and it got derailed with a discussion of how `git grep` is faster than `hg` grep`. I'm sure it's great for you that git's grep is fast. But the time you gain from how much faster it is than hg probably is strongly outweighed by the time other people lose to struggling with git's interface. Unfortunately there's no easy way to benchmark that.