Strongly disagree. Learning complex girl workflows is unnecessary unless you're in a team. However, learning the absolute basics is really easy and has benefits over "storing previous versions in a zip file". By absolute basics I mean add, commit, reset. If you add basic branching (checkout and merge) you already get a very powerful tool to experiment with your code without worrying about fucking it up. Then you can learn the rest when you have a use for it—log, diff, even rebase.

But here's the thing: without VCS, if you ever do need anything slightly more sophisticated... you're on your own.

Yesterday I was helping a friend debug some code from an intro CS class, and I was so stressed out about changing something whithout being able to revert it, because he obviously wasn't using git.

Granted, I really wish there was a mainstream git alternative, ideally simpler, without the more complex features catering to large teams. At least there's a lot of graphical interfaces on top of git, which make it really intuitive to use and can bring the great VCS benefits without the investment of learning git. Maybe simple interfaces to complex tools is a good middle ground.