Being needlessly complicated seldomly stops the tech industry from using something as long as the complexity is slightly out of the way.

"Barely usable for daily tasks"

Is a pretty strong statement, especially given many tech companies use it exactly for this purpose.

Git might have a learning curve, and sure, it's not the simplest. But "barely usable" is hyperbole in the face of actual evidence.

I'm not defending Git specifically ; other SVNs are just as viable. The quoted statement seems a bit ridiculous.

To me there’s some irony in that all insta-criticism of Git in responses to my comment presumably applies to a project that describes itself as “Git for data” and promises exact reproduction of all Git command behaviour—therefore suffering from the same shortcomings.