Comment by trinix912

> But if all systems are so similar anyway, why would you need "the right tool for the job"?

They’re similar in the UI but the underlying architecture is vastly different, to accomplish different goals - sometimes what you want is an entirely centralized VCS, decentralized VCS, or a mix of both.

As for the tooling, any decent IDE supports different systems equally well. With IntelliJ I can use Git, SVN, and even CVS through the same UI. But yes, VSCode plugin XYZ doesn’t.