Why do you hate git? I've been pretty happy with it for code, and wouldn't mind being able to use it for data repositories as well.

Is it really worth re-hashing at this point? Reams have been written about the UX

It's used by the vast majority of software engineers, so apparently it's "good enough".

Don’t ascribe positive feelings to popularity. I’m only using git until the moment there’s a viable alternative written by someone who knows what DX is.