I'm fairly sure that at least on the ui-side you could improve over git, but the goal is not necessarily lower complexity. A semi-distributed system could have

I'm fairly sure that at least on the ui-side you could improve over git, but the goal is not necessarily lower complexity. A semi-distributed system could have other advantages, for example fine-grained access control (read permissions on folder or file-level), support for partial checkouts, better support for large binaries (only the last revision on the local repo, older revisions on the server) etc. git currently can't do that because of the way it's designed and built.