This isn't HTML & CSS vs squarespace, and to butcher the analogy this is more like CSS vs Sass/SCSS. CSS is the internal API which does everything but Sass is a

This isn't HTML & CSS vs squarespace, and to butcher the analogy this is more like CSS vs Sass/SCSS. CSS is the internal API which does everything but Sass is an API which exposes that in a much more beautiful way. I don't need to know how postgres does paging, indexing, tree diffs, etc to be able to write good SQL. I don't need to know how typescript compiles to javascript to use typescipt. I don't need to know how my engine works to drive my car. I use all of those every day. But the suggestion here is that as every day users of git should learn git internals to be able to use the tool better. That's a tooling failure. It's not a failure of the git design or git fundamentals, it's a failure of the git cli.