I think a lot of the adoption of git in the industry at large is in _spite_ of its distributed nature - it just so happens that the decentralized design made it

I think a lot of the adoption of git in the industry at large is in _spite_ of its distributed nature - it just so happens that the decentralized design made it care much more about branching and merging, and it got adoption because even for a small local team those improvements over SVN were worth the pain of dealing with git's UX warts.