Hg easy to use?

http://groups.google.com/group/vim_dev/msg/7e494fa0fe6cc732

If Bram, author of vim, cannot do some simple version cutovers in Hg, is it really that easy to use?

The other thread at http://groups.google.com/group/vim_dev/browse_thread/thread/1ce709f61e5424e5/f70ea0132796c96a?hide_quotes=no#msg_f70ea0132796c96a is even more illustrative (and, as a friend on #git said, too fatiguing to read).

Branching it seems is still a mess in Hg...