It is correct that no VCS that operates on plain text can do better than Git, as is in fact pointed out in the article. The point is rather to [1] make it expl

It is correct that no VCS that operates on plain text can do better than Git, as is in fact pointed out in the article. The point is rather to [1] make it explicit that the assumption that everything is text is in fact a choice and [2] show some examples of consequences of this choice.