I agree with this take, I think hg could have overtaken git for a while, but git catered a bit better to the OS communities and hg catered a bit more to big com

I agree with this take, I think hg could have overtaken git for a while, but git catered a bit better to the OS communities and hg catered a bit more to big companies from a DX perspective. Maybe in this case, the important thing is knowing that your partners/technologies are aligned with your vision of the future- git has been more open-source first (I would argue)