> Mercurial is much easier to understand and use than git

I simply do not find this to be true. I've used git for years and tried to use hg to participate in a project and I straight-up just could not understand its branching model and how exactly I was supposed to use that tool. I ended up maintaining my work in a git repository and very carefully doing individual commits and a push in the hg repository only at the very end of a long work period. My daily work remained in git because I could not for the life of me understand how people work with that tool with regards to local branches and squashing. (Which, sorry, I cannot do without.)