Atlassian has put some great "mind abstractions" on top of git to help people understand how to use it.
It's definitely fashionable these days to hate on complicated tools. I wonder if the same is true in other professions. Simple tools are easy to use, yes. But anyone who as worked on a Bicycle or other equipment that requires specialized tools knows that the having the correct, often more complicated tool beats the hell out of wacking on it with the wrong type of wrench.
Software allows a better abstraction of a problem than anything in the mechanical world. Progression in software craftsmanship has shown us that powerful functionality can be hidden behind a simple interface, if sufficient thought and design is put into it.
Our expectations of how we interact with software have risen over the years, and that's a good thing.
Right tool definitely wins. Mecurial is excellent, though; it solves all of my problems. But I feel like I should at least know some git basics. And I want to start at the simple beginning just in case I have some misunderstandings about what I'm doing in hg.
This is generally where I point people who have a technical background