Yet another anti-git rant which will merely bounce off the deflector shields of the git faithful. I doubt anything will change in terms of git usability and misfeatures until someone proves that there's a better way to do it by building an alternative that's all around better than git. But that raises the question of why one would continue to use git at that point.
Using Mercurial daily, I don't understand why it isn't widely viewed as the alternative to git that you mention. It seems to avoid some of the pain-points the OP lists.
The idea that there are "git faithful" is a sign of how immature (in every sense) the software development field is. Masochism and complexity-worship seem to blight our field(not necessarily referring to git, which I'm not qualified to comment on)
