The main reason for the abandonment of centralized version control was as much about Git and Mercurial having the advantages of DVCSes as it was about SVN start

The main reason for the abandonment of centralized version control was as much about Git and Mercurial having the advantages of DVCSes as it was about SVN starting to show its age. I found SVN literally painful to use, perhaps because it was based around CVS's standards, and CVS was originally a series of shell scripts written in 1990.