If the person learning just wants to write some HTML in a file and put that on a server somewhere as the index.html file then maybe version control is overkill.

If the person learning just wants to write some HTML in a file and put that on a server somewhere as the index.html file then maybe version control is overkill. But, if this person's goal is about creating a web application then version control is a good skill to have. I remember the days when source code for a web application was something we could zip up and hand to a client. But, these days, more than likely you have a remote server somewhere and you need to SSH into it and from there you could SFTP the files but at that point why not just use git and it's branch management. Obviously, there are more arguments that can be made for learning git.