I mean, you joke but that's actually fairly true. P4 users always notice when the central server goes down because you can't reliably look at changelist history

I mean, you joke but that's actually fairly true. P4 users always notice when the central server goes down because you can't reliably look at changelist history, draft CLs, and do a host of other operations that are possible on git locally. (using a central VCS confers other advantages of course).