Let me suggest to suppress that instinct and read the article again. There's not a shred of "git hate". Quite the contrary: The author is a Git user himself and has detailed suggestions to improve Git and its ecosystem. That is a good thing, not "very unfortunate". Also, Git is easier than what exactly? Than the proposed improvements? I suspect you haven't read the article. This is neither a "Mercurial vs Git" nor a "Git sucks" piece, which you should have noticed while reading.