I personally think git is simple. That doesn't mean it's easy. The issues listed in the GP comment seem to me mostly social. I think the most common problems with git stem from a more general difficulty in working with a branching, asynchronously developed codebase.
About merges... I think rebase is ridiculously overused, and people should use merges more. Clearly a feature branch littered with spurious merges is bad, but often it seems that this is taken simply to mean that merges are bad, and I get the impression that people go to ridiculous lengths with rebase etc. just to preserve an illusion of linear history even in cases where merging would be better.
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It may be an issue of terminology.
I personally think git is simple. That doesn't mean it's easy. The issues listed in the GP comment seem to me mostly social. I think the most common problems with git stem from a more general difficulty in working with a branching, asynchronously developed codebase.
About merges... I think rebase is ridiculously overused, and people should use merges more. Clearly a feature branch littered with spurious merges is bad, but often it seems that this is taken simply to mean that merges are bad, and I get the impression that people go to ridiculous lengths with rebase etc. just to preserve an illusion of linear history even in cases where merging would be better.