If the end result weren't so stable and high-quality, I might agree with you. But Fossil has become my VCS for personal projects because I can host a repo-farm

If the end result weren't so stable and high-quality, I might agree with you. But Fossil has become my VCS for personal projects because I can host a repo-farm trivially through CGI on my webhost, and it includes issues/wiki/forum. This makes me feel like Fossil has carved out a nice niche for itself that provides a real benefit for at least some folks, rather than simply being a reactionary project motivated because git was written elsewhere.