In the past, version control was something that existed but you never had to think about. When you got to a good place, you'd hit the big red Save Button and up your code would go. Once in a blue moon you'd step on somebody's changes and have to do a quick merge. No big deal.
Now with Git, version control is part of the workflow. It's never far from your mind. You're creating branches before writing code (versus creating branches three times a year when you needed them). You're doing silly housekeeping tasks like reverting a change that you accidentally checked in to the main branch then branching and copy/pasting your changes back into the IDE just so that the source control system (and possibly some ops overlord somewhere) doesn't get mad at you.
I'm sure there are times where Git has actually made things easier, but most of the time it's just one extra thing taking up my attention.
It's like timesheets for your code. Not a big deal, but ever so slightly insulting that you have to deal with them.