It took me a while to learn git, and the explanations I went through involved the underlying structure of the repository. They seemed excessively complicated at the time, compared to memorizing commands for cvs and svn. However, now that I understand that underlying structure, every new git tool or function just provides additional means of transforming the repository structure I have into the repository structure I want.

You don't stop learning programming once you've memorized a rote sequence of steps to run a half-dozen algorithms on a hash table. And you don't stop learning git once you've memorized a rote sequence of steps to run a half-dozen algorithms on a git repository structure.

I don't mean that to suggest that git has no room to improve in its UI; far from it. But that particular comic seems to excuse a self-perpetuating problem of not wanting to learn something useful, and instead relying on people who did learn that useful thing while simultaneously belittling them for knowing it.