Jonathan Blow

Git is based on simple data structures (objects, trees) and sound abstractions (lightweight branches, remotes). Its architecture teases apart ("decomplects" in the Rich Hickey sense) aspects that can be separated conceptually.

I agree that at the core is a technically simple idea, but in terms of actual use git is a disaster.

I think it's useful to keep those two things separate though. It can be a mistake to sacrifice simplicity to improve ease of use.

Git is full of bloat. It is often easier to solve a particular problem by copying your files to another directory, deleting everything in the repository folder, cloning again and merging by hand.