many say that git has an intuitive/concise data model. But it seems that even git team itself has not quite got it.

Looking at one of the latest changes [1] in which a _new_ merge strategy (ort) was introduced and made default one can ask how is it possible that so fundamental change happened 15 years after git was created?

Maybe the model is not so simple as it wants to seem.

[1] https://github.blog/changelog/2022-09-12-merge-commits-now-c...