In my experience, feature sets tend to converge within product categories, but I'm happiest in the long term with the program whose original design decisions I'

In my experience, feature sets tend to converge within product categories, but I'm happiest in the long term with the program whose original design decisions I'm most sympathetic with. In fossil's case this was architectural simplicity, an easy-to-use basic set of commands with a discoverable set of expanded commands that always seemed to meet my needs as they cropped up, collaboration features in the pre-GitHub era were killer. There are a few discrete layers of hackability for customization with minimal risk of blowing your project away. Fossil still meets my needs admirably, and I stick with it even though it's harder to make the case for it in the current era of feature convergence.