If you work with git, you should be proficient with git. All of your points are dancing around the fact that your main point is that “being sloppy with git is OK because I don’t know it and it’s not like what I like using”.

And no, I’m not “shifting goalposts”. A senior should be able to use their VCS to elevate their development powers. I wouldn’t expect a junior to know that, but I would expect them to learn it from seniors and in their practice.