I choose to use git, over and over again. I hardly use any of its "network effects" but rather its features. So, maybe try to be a bit less general the next time, please.
Just a bit, it's nothing I look forward to. I mainly use Gitlab due to work, but it's not that much better.
> Do you work with a team?
Yes.
> Did you really review other alternatives and try them out?
Only SVN some years ago and I hated it.
It wasn't my intention to say that Git is the best VCS we'll ever get, but I enjoy using it and (besides the sometimes a bit baroque command line syntax) have nothing to complain about. So, whenever there's the need for version control, I choose Git without second thought and so I never even felt the urge to try something else. I'm sure that this will change at some point, but not yet.