I think you argue in the same direction I often argue. Git is not for everybody. If you don't want to spend the time to learn git you probably are better of using something else.
Additionally I would like to add something: There are more cases were you need than you think, especially if you haven't learned it. E.g., you start a little prototype to present to your boss. It succeeds, boom, ten years later you have 100 man team working on the same prototype you started 10 years ago. Suddenly you really need forks, branches, some people spend their whole day merging stuff, etc. But hey, you can't switch from SVN because you have chosen it in the beginning and now everybody is using it, all kinds of scripts, tools, and optimized workflows require that you continue to use it.
Some people might think that spending two weeks in the beginning to learn to use a power tool is much better than starting earlier and thereby getting years of pain later on.
I agree: whenever you find yourself saying "I don't have time to learn this advanced tool that will make my life better, I have to ship now!", you should really take a moment and carefully verify that this is a good choice. (Sometimes it is a good choice though.)
In the world of science, I have colleagues who have said this for ten years wrt. LaTeX vs. Word, or even just learning EndNote vs. typing up reference lists by hand. I cringe every time I watch them spend an order of magnitude more time on pure overhead, and always getting stuff wrong, for every single paper they put out.
That's a really good reason: When you are unable to learn it correctly (maybe simply because it's too complicated). With the simple tool you are still not able to do all the cool stuff, but at least you can get something simple done fast.
Additionally I would like to add something: There are more cases were you need than you think, especially if you haven't learned it. E.g., you start a little prototype to present to your boss. It succeeds, boom, ten years later you have 100 man team working on the same prototype you started 10 years ago. Suddenly you really need forks, branches, some people spend their whole day merging stuff, etc. But hey, you can't switch from SVN because you have chosen it in the beginning and now everybody is using it, all kinds of scripts, tools, and optimized workflows require that you continue to use it.
Some people might think that spending two weeks in the beginning to learn to use a power tool is much better than starting earlier and thereby getting years of pain later on.