and yet I still switched to Git, knowing all this, and don't regret it, because it gives me enough power to fit my workflows rather than me serving my VCS all d

and yet I still switched to Git, knowing all this, and don't regret it, because it gives me enough power to fit my workflows rather than me serving my VCS all day. There are now a large number of friendly ways to learn git, if you don't like the man pages then don't use them. It's not exactly uncommon for man pages to have technical material in them