Agreed, and let's not forget that client side GUI applications like SourceTree help to abstract away most of the common operations.
Most of the tools out there in DCVS land seem to have as a prerequisite that you already know how to do it the hard way. If I've already climbed the learning curve for the hard, but powerful, way I'm probably just going to keep doing it that way.
The opportunity is for a tool that makes easy things easy. I signed up for the SourceTree Windows beta, hopefully that's it.