I can understand that you want to use simple, polished tools and don’t want to waste time with someone else’s beta-quality unpolished projects, but on the flip side you’ve taken this attitude too far into anti-learning, anti-intellectual, stubbornness, and laziness. Some technologies are actually worth a serious learning investment, and this is one of them.
Git has real innovations over SVN. I’m not the absolute best person to articulate them yet, but this isn’t just empty buzz, and a hollow new trend. It’s really a better product than SVN ever was.
There is a learning curve. This isn’t a $0.99 mindless iPhone game, you are expected to do textbook learning to get the full advantages from this. Any good git user is fully comfortable and conversant in the command line interface and understands the internals, and uses the GUIs and IDE integrations as optional conveniences.
If you are going to be a programmer for a long time, it’s worth the investment of learning git at a deeper level, and becoming a power user. Ideally, one would know the high level concepts of git including the snapshot system, Merkle trees, branching, merging, conflict resolution, fast-forward merges, etc.