As another commenter said, Git is so pervasive that learning something else would put you at a big disadvantage.

That doesn't excuse Git having an unintuitive UI that makes it very difficult to learn. It has that in common Vim, Emacs, the command line itself... and programming in general. What they also have in common is that once you get used to them they're wonderful tools.

If you don't practice using branches, resetting, rebasing, etc., you're not going to get good with them. Create a dummy repo and practice. There's no "easy button."

I was terrified of Git when I started using it. All the time, I would call in senior colleagues to resolve Git issues that went over my head.

Nowadays, I use Git for coding as well as writing, vector graphics, datasets, and anything else that isn't stored in binary. The time it took to get here was well worth it.