This is a tempting idea, and maybe it's actually happening, but I do wonder if it's a bit like the hope that git would eventually sprout 'better porcelain' that

This is a tempting idea, and maybe it's actually happening, but I do wonder if it's a bit like the hope that git would eventually sprout 'better porcelain' that would obsolete all the clunky bash, perl, etc. scripts that it started out as. In the end most everyone who uses git puts up with the slowly improving 'mainline' porcelain and all the replacements never go anywhere. In particular, I imagine it was important for initial adoption to create the android/ios apps but it really feels like now we're stuck with the kind of clunky (super easy for the user, but super hard to get right for the admin of the network imo) flow they created.