Exactly, if you stick to the very basics with git, you can live a happy life never caring about the internals. If you however want to dig into the depths of Git

Exactly, if you stick to the very basics with git, you can live a happy life never caring about the internals. If you however want to dig into the depths of Git and use all its power, I don’t get why people don’t think there would be an obvious learning curve. Same exact thing above applies to so many things in software development, from IDEs, to code editors (Vim/Emacs/Sublime/etc), to programming languages, to deploy tools, the list goes on. There’s a reason software development is classified as skilled labor and not a low end job generally. You’re expected to have knowledge of, or be willing to learn a lot, to do your job.