Though I wasn't trying to say that there is no need for staging-based workflows, I was just saying that there is nothing in terms of convenience or capabiliti

Though I wasn't trying to say that there is no need for staging-based workflows, I was just saying that there is nothing in terms of convenience or capabilities that the staging area does that can't be achieved with just regular commits and amending/rewriting. The immediate response from many git users when confronted to alternative VCSes is "well, it doesn't have a staging area, so it's obviously inferior" instead of going with "let's see how differently they approach this problem, and perhaps I will like it/git isn't all perfect after all".