I'm assuming the point was power tools versus very basic and more approachable ones, and I think there's a place for both. To use this example, I use vim most of the time but sometimes I jump into nano to do a quick edit on something.

I don't love most of the GUI tools for git, but I use Sourcetree for 10,000 ft visualization and can't really parse CLI git --log graphs, even if they're heavily decorated.