I acknowledge that Git is really good on a technical level, but don't like the CLI experience regardless.

Instead, I much prefer to use tools like GitKraken (paid), SourceTree (free, limited platform support), Git Cola (free, lightweight, a bit basic) and know that most of my colleagues just use the Git integration in their IDE of choice.

Working that way, it's a decidedly pleasant experience, not unlike using visual merge tools like Meld, where you can also stage individual lines/code blocks and operate with branches and tags in a very visual and obvious manner.

That said, sometimes the support for Git LFS and things like submodules is all over the place and I've had cases where not adding node_modules or something like that to .gitignore has made the UI unresponsive with how much stuff initially shows up in the working copy, so sometimes you still have to drop down to the CLI and do a fix herer and there.