Yes but none of those things sound like they needed to be first-class built-in parts of git and instead could've been just plug-in tools built on top of git. L

Yes but none of those things sound like they needed to be first-class built-in parts of git and instead could've been just plug-in tools built on top of git. Like stashes could just be a set of branches named stashes/<stash name>, with external scripts handling the stash/pop mechanic. And given the choices in things that get first class support in git, "which branch was this commit originally made in" or "no you don't need to care about that intermediate commit" or "what commits were derived from this commit" or "what branch is this commit in" seems like they would've been more useful problems for the freeping creaturitis to solve.