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To borrow a turn of phrase from Bjarne Stroustroup, there are two kinds of software: software people complain about, and software nobody uses.

A couple of years ago the others were in use as well.

git won for various reasons, but the UI complaints certainly aren't because people don't understand DAGs.

Yeah, the reason everyone complains about Git is because everyone uses git. SVN was the horse to beat 10 years ago, because everyone used it.

people complained about git's UI 10 years ago. They didn't complain (as much, by far) about the UI of the other DAG based DSCMs.