These two comments sum up my feelings about this succinctly: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36179021 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36179021 https

These two comments sum up my feelings about this succinctly: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36179021 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36179021 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36178952 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36178952 People in general are cultishly attracted towards instantiating centralized solutions to solve their problems. Simultaneously, they're blind to the long term negative effects that come from creating it, mainly: - the developed overdependence on it for a particular service/function - the societal mental lobotomization in terms of developing non-centralized solutions - the incoming naivete of the next generation into assuming that it'll always exist & be there, and not planning for the worst case scenario Referring back to Git, part of the reason could be that they assume a canonical "true" repository, which runs counter to how Git operates. -------- Nevertheless, Git's UI could be cleaned up significantly: VS Code wise, Git Graph is a personal favorite of mine because of how well the plugin renders the commit graph for you. https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=mhutchie.git-graph https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=mhutchie...