This line of thinking is low effort and pointless. There's no hate here (in fact, I said love). Tools are meant to be helpful and talking about how to improve them is always good.

Git has lots of configs that are automatic and shared and that you can locally override yourself such as the ignore and attribute files. Why not more? I have no issue (and in fact prefer) if clients can override the projects configuration but git should support a turnkey workflow, at least for its own features. As it stands, you can't add submodules seamlessly, for example.

Its not about adherence. Workflow as Simon-Says is just a bad workflow. This stuff should take zero cognitive load.