It's also one of the few tools that is likely to be a constant factor in your job for a long time. Yes, it's not super easy, and you can sort of get by with minimal effort, but it's not that much time to invest compared to how much benefit you'll reap.

And I don't mean memorising commands and their arguments, but rather understanding Git from first principles.

(I wrote this visual tutorial for that purpose, takes about fifteen minutes to go through : https://agripongit.vincenttunru.com/)