I used hg (mercurial) before git. Every time I see someone make an argument like yours I think "only because git's merge/branch model is bad and so you need hacks to make it acceptable".
Git won, which is why I've been using it for more than 10 years, but that doesn't mean it was ever best, it was just most popular and so the rest of the eco system makes it worth it accepting the flaws (code review tools and CI system both have much better git support - these are two critical things that if you use anything else will work against you).
Not only is git not the best, but one of the central value props of coding agents and chatbots used for programming is not having to use git in order to interact with free code.
Git won, which is why I've been using it for more than 10 years, but that doesn't mean it was ever best, it was just most popular and so the rest of the eco system makes it worth it accepting the flaws (code review tools and CI system both have much better git support - these are two critical things that if you use anything else will work against you).