Well said, but I humbly disagree that it has to be better in some way, just easier AND as technically sound. Unless that is by your definition better. Ease of use is probably one of the most important factors in real life in determining preferences for software.

I strongly feel if someone could match the merging ability of Git with the ease of simple, well worded commands, it could win. And it doesn't even have to be a Git replacement, but a better frontend. Kind of how yay is to pacman. Or how most use something like Handbrake instead of ffmpeg.

In a lot of ways, it reminds me of Python and Perl. Perl was definitely more powerful as a language, but Python felt like natural writing in pseudocode. Enthusiasts rightly point to the power of inbuilt regex, but like Git, few actually could harness it well enough to make that unreadability worth it.