I don't think there are many people that considered CVS good enough, even back in the days. For example, there was no way for end-users to retain the history of

I don't think there are many people that considered CVS good enough, even back in the days. For example, there was no way for end-users to retain the history of a file when renaming/copying it. When the FreeBSD project still used CVS, committers always had to file tickets against the admins to ask them to do it server-side through a so-called 'repocopy': https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=106080 https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=106080