There's a few historical reasons for why git was considered complicated. One of them is that it was complicated. The people who started using git very early on in order to work on the kernel really had to learn a very rough set of scripts to make everything work. All the effort had been on making the core technology work and very little on making it easy or obvious.

So I would not be surprised if the globbing libraries, for example, will do NFD-mangling in order to glob "correctly", so even programs ported from real Unix might end up getting pathnames subtly changed into NFD as part of some hot library-on-library action with UTF hackery inside.

The idea of abstracting away the one thing that must be blindingly fast, the kernel, is inherently counter productive.

People will realize that software is not a product; you use it to build a product.

Most of the good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.

While I may not get any money from Linux, I get a huge personal satisfaction from having written something that people really enjoy using, and that people find to be the best alternative for their needs.

It's what I call "mental masturbation", when you engage is some pointless intellectual exercise that has no possible meaning.