I don't think that the addition of more features "makes the learning curve even steeper". It just extends the curve a bit farther. If using these new features w

I don't think that the addition of more features "makes the learning curve even steeper". It just extends the curve a bit farther. If using these new features where key to using Git, then yes, it would make it steeper. For the 80% of people who want to just want to pull, commit, merge, push--that functionality is still there, and has even been improved in the last release.