You have a point, but it's more like it's difficult to articulate, than a cult.
I think of jj as the ultimate refinement of git. It's not revolutionary, in the sense that there's no must-have feature, but it's a distinct evolutionary upgrade that's just way more pleasant than git.
It's telling that most hard-core git gurus are lukewarm on jj at first, but for everyone else, jj makes it way easier to do guru-level version control.
I think of jj as the ultimate refinement of git. It's not revolutionary, in the sense that there's no must-have feature, but it's a distinct evolutionary upgrade that's just way more pleasant than git.
It's telling that most hard-core git gurus are lukewarm on jj at first, but for everyone else, jj makes it way easier to do guru-level version control.
Just my $.02, anyway.