That is definitely a tradeoff. On the other hand, the history of all human progress is a history of path dependence. Constraints spur creativity and Jujutsu works extremely well.

(I've worked with the main author of Jujutsu before. Also, having worked on Mercurial for many years, I have my biases about how source control should work. Jujutsu's workflow is very similar to Mercurial's, with some rather stunning improvements on it.)