In my (admittedly limited) experience, mercurial is much more intuitive than git. I really dislike that git branches are only tags on the heads and completely ephemeral. It favours creating a single clean history instead of preserving what actually happened.

That’s great! I can’t wait to start reading through the new content!

For your third point, isn’t that already the case? The only difference is that now there is no focus spell option that doesn’t increase your pool size.

Rolling more dices does reduce the likelihood of a low roll. And I’ll reserve balance judgement until the Player Core 1 has been out and testesld for a while.