Assuming by "the most successful set of design decisions about document management in the history of documents or management" you meant Git, I see what Fossil d

Assuming by "the most successful set of design decisions about document management in the history of documents or management" you meant Git, I see what Fossil does as an iteration no those ideas, not so much telling them to "get fucked." Recognizing that things like issue queues are commonly used together with version control repos and then integrating the latter more tightly to the former is a step forward rather than a complete refutation.