git was wildly successful, yes, but it still has hints of what esr was talking about. once you step out of the clone/checkout/commit/push loop, git is extremely thorny for people who aren't "with it."
Subversion results in far fewer problems in these areas. Given that, in our use case, git brings nothing that subversion doesn't, I would greatly prefer to use the system that leads to less issues and greater productivity.
Please note that I'm not saying that git is bad in some kind of overarching sense. It just brings trouble in our use case.