It has remained popular because it feels like the correct approach in almost every situation, despite having a difficult, obtuse UI. After spending years with M

It has remained popular because it feels like the correct approach in almost every situation, despite having a difficult, obtuse UI. After spending years with Microsoft's centralized version control and then switching to Git it's like a breath of fresh air. Granted, I almost never use the Git command line and always favor a 3rd party GUI. For users who are a tad confused I think this is the right approach. And to me that's what makes Git a winner: the core software is powerful enough to do everything that needs to be done, and you can pick whatever UI you're comfortable with. No one is forcing you to use Git's built-in UI. That said I think even the high-level Git concepts have naming that confuses new users. "Pull request" annoyed me for a long time. Yes I technically understood why they chose that term, but practically speaking it just seemed pointlessly misleading.