This doesn't really address any of the GP's points. There is no consistency in the language or syntax of the commands when taken as a whole. Even individually

This doesn't really address any of the GP's points. There is no consistency in the language or syntax of the commands when taken as a whole. Even individually some of the commands don't really make any sense and harken back to seemingly random unix CLI flags. "I wasted enough time to memorize them" doesn't mean they couldn't be cleaned up and made a little better. If you're a single developer git is indeed overkill (not that there's a much better alternative).