I agree; my bias was to try and control everything (including lots of legal docs, in our business) with SVN. But it turns out ... "people who can't [or won't]

I agree; my bias was to try and control everything (including lots of legal docs, in our business) with SVN. But it turns out ... "people who can't [or won't] figure out version control" amounts to just about everybody who's not a dev, in my world. There are lots of those people and they're important to my success (and, dear reader, it is likely, also to yours).