There is nothing simple about git. 'ls' is a simple tool. git is probably the most complicated console command (in widespread use) I have ever used, although I'm open to other examples

not for 95% of what people will use it for IMO

initializing a repo, staging files, adding them to the changeset, commiting then pushing those changes are easy to do. solving merge conflicts is a little complicated but IDEs make that much easier to do.

It is not simple like a hammer, but imo the bar for being a software engineer is being intelligent enough to be able to understand it well enough to do things with it, since it is a tool of the trade.