That seems to imply there’s some problem with hg the tool, being big and bloated? In my experience the tool is fine (quite a lot better than git, IMO) - the pro

That seems to imply there’s some problem with hg the tool, being big and bloated? In my experience the tool is fine (quite a lot better than git, IMO) - the problem is that distributed version control is all about community, and the community uses git. Mercurial-the-tool would need to be 10x as good to get people to consider leaving git’s community, and it’s only 2x as good, so they don't.