" if your counterclaim is that he hasn't truly grokked it yet, then that suggests that it may be counterintuitive." You should say, "it may be counterintuitive

" if your counterclaim is that he hasn't truly grokked it yet, then that suggests that it may be counterintuitive." You should say, "it may be counterintuitive to him". Intuition is based on past experiences and our internal metaphors. We have no reason to believe that his "intuition" is the same as most of the population that would use git.