The funny thing about it is I see git being used in enterprise situation for non-dev users to manage files, often with a web back end. For instance you can tell the average person to try editing a file with the web interface in git and they're likely to succeed.

People say git is too "complex" or "complicated" but I never saw end users succeeding with CVS or Mercurial or SVN or Visual Sourcesafe the way they do with Git.

"Enterprise" tools (such as business rules engines) frequently prove themselves "not ready for the enterprise" because they don't have proper answers to version control, something essential when you have more than one person working on something. People say "do you really need (the index)" or other things git has but git seemed to get over the Ashby's law threshold and have enough internal complexity to confront the essential complexity of enterprise version control.

> you can tell the average person to try editing a file with the web interface

Yes, but then you are not using a "local first" tool but a typical server based workflow.