In my experience of using git integration features in IntelliJ, they are nice for simple tasks like quickly checking the status of a file or committing all the changes, but as soon as I need to do more complex tasks in git, I find the UIs either get in the way and slow me down or just aren’t fully featured enough to do what I need to do and I end up back on the command line. Hence why I always encourage newcomers to git to learn both if possible.

I do agree that git could certainly do with a more consistent command line interface - but I imagine that won’t even be considered until that next major version of git, if it ever arrives.