The issue is not really the base concept. It's layering a huge amount of concepts on top of it.
Just think of the "places" a change can be in (technically most of these are just labels on the tree, but they have separate commands to deal with them).
Remote, Index, working copy, staging area, stash, branches.
Those are the ones involved in the simples way I know how to make the smallest change. When you get up to stuff like submodules, LFS, subtrees then I very much understand when people get frustrated. All most of them wanted is a slight improvement over copying a folder they named myproject_v23 to a network drive.
Just think of the "places" a change can be in (technically most of these are just labels on the tree, but they have separate commands to deal with them).
Remote, Index, working copy, staging area, stash, branches.
Those are the ones involved in the simples way I know how to make the smallest change. When you get up to stuff like submodules, LFS, subtrees then I very much understand when people get frustrated. All most of them wanted is a slight improvement over copying a folder they named myproject_v23 to a network drive.