I use magit extensively because it's an utter fucking marvel, but sometimes I'm in a shell without emacs open, or I have to run some internal tooling that wraps around git.

My point overall was that I see all of these as a collection of tools. Which one I choose depends a lot on context, and it's served me well to be baseline comfortable with all of them rather than depending too heavily on my emacs setup.

I'll admit to doing that. Command line git is baked into my muscle memory now.

(magit is brilliant, but for some reason it's never stuck with me, unless I want to interactively stage a few specific chunks, and then it's much nicer than using the cli).