Thank you. I vaguely remember being put off by Mercurial at the time and feeling much more comfortable with git, but couldn't have put it into words as well as you did.

People always say you have to know git internals in order to use it, but that's just not true. Git has the right data model and has always been about empowering users to edit their data. Which makes the data model be "in your face" compared to the alternatives (and I think that's what people latch on to when they talk about "internals"), but it ultimately makes for a better tool.