On Building Git for Lawyers

I'm interested in an adjacent question, because I do it myself:

Why don't more people use Git and Markdown for their todo lists and/or GTD systems?

The Git client is ideal for displaying lists and editing a little text file you git push could not be more simple.

After years of trialling a variety of notebook setups, I eventually fell back to vscode & git. I've even given up on Markdown (nothing wrong with it, I just realised I never actually view my own notes in parsed Markdown so I stopped bothering).

All I need is a file structure that I understand, and an editor for typing and searching :)

Git is great for (i) persistence, (ii) availability and (iii) the merge flow encourages me to review/clean changes before merging them to main.

Simple for a developer sure. Just have a look at what entrylevel developers do (no hate, everybody starts somewhere).

This group of people is willing and ready to learn but you still often hear "just checkout the project again" when a problem is encountered.

Most people just use an app and are fine with that functionality. My partner and I use a Google Keep list that is shared between our accounts. Live editing included and it does everything just fine.

There are more elaborate app solutions out there that do more and solve most of the problems.

Seems like overkill, especially considering I exclusively use todo lists on my phone, where I can download a free app and never have to think about rebasing and diffing.