No problem, BTW, in my mind it's getting rid of the (need to) stash and improved management of untracked files that are the major simplifications, not staging.

No problem, BTW, in my mind it's getting rid of the (need to) stash and improved management of untracked files that are the major simplifications, not staging. In my workflow I also see no cost, but I am happy to accept that that's because we don't have very sophisticated needs.