Git is a tool. You use it if it solves your problem. You can certainly use it the same way you'd use Subversion and it's not any harder - it'll just behave as a version control system that can buffer commits offline with two "levels" of commit - local and remote.

If you want to use the more complicated stuff, then there is no way to avoid learning the more complicated ideas.

There is a lot I don't understand about Git, but, as far as my usage patterns have gone, I'm very satisfied.