Hiding stuff is probably the main reason why I think the git CLI interface is not so good: it's much, much harder to learn what's going on without a good view o

Hiding stuff is probably the main reason why I think the git CLI interface is not so good: it's much, much harder to learn what's going on without a good view of the commit graph, and while you can extract that from the CLI it's not something that is obvious to beginners, and it's tedious for more experienced use. Also, the mouse will generally beat the keyboard for selection tasks, which is a decent amount of git usage. Splitting up changes in your working directory into multiple commits is substantially faster with a GUI, as well as a lot of commit graph manipulation options.