I really understand your sentiment, and I've been there for long enough myself - but once you have a somewhat decent understanding about gits internal data mode

I really understand your sentiment, and I've been there for long enough myself - but once you have a somewhat decent understanding about gits internal data model, the commands that allow you to clean up pretty much any mess (reset & reflog probably being the most prominent ones) start to somewhat make sense. If you had previous exposure to anything computer-science, it very likely won't take more than a few hours until the puzzle pieces start to come together. And it's time well-spent in my opinion; git will probably be one of the longer-lasting constants in software development.