I think you're probably correct that you likely aren't the target audience here. Version control is a loaded term. This would be a terrible replacement for perforce or anything for diffing something like a CAD file.

The real focus of the system is for things that are better managed by people who aren't engineers but end up interfacing with code very tightly. The idea was to focus on the peripheral functions that come up in UI engineering and enable e.g. translators, copy editors, and designers to essentially commit to a codebase without having to understand git or know how to handle plaint text merge conflicts.

> I suspect that many of the people who influence the adoption of VCS are likely deeply technical and will likely actively avoid products that are opinionated on the target output when using the VCS.

I totally agree. You can modify the output to your hearts desire. This was a big part of our design.