Comment by skydhash

I can use the CLI, but magit is mostly CLI on steroids. All the information you could have accessed through the cli is quickly available, and they are active objects, meaning subsequent commands will take that into account. Any mutation is also available through quick keybindings as well.

The one thing that I truly like about Magit, and the builtin vc-mode, is that I can focus for a couple of hours on coding, then quickly create a serie of commits to capture that work. Like doing line art after sketching. I like when administrative work (filing patches under commits) is isolated from creative work (solving problems and designing practical solutions).