I do hear reasonable complaints here and there, such as the overuse of "checkout", but the majority of complaints I hear from new users fall into one of two cat

I do hear reasonable complaints here and there, such as the overuse of "checkout", but the majority of complaints I hear from new users fall into one of two categories. The first is complaining that git doesn't enforce a server/client model. The second is that git doesn't enforce a linear history. Both of these seem incredibly odd to me, as they are complaints about git accurately representing the development process.