Looking forward to using the new release. "git at the speed of thought" describes magit quite well. Actually sometimes magit nudged me into the direction of looking up some more special git commands, to learn about them and then making use of magit's interface to them, often simply pressing one button more. Magit has not made me forget how command line git works, because it often shows me right there, what the arguments are I am specifying by a few key presses actually are. If it made me forget how to use actual git, I would be thinking: "Meh, but I should know how to use git actually, for the times when I do not have magit around." Fortunately this is not the case at all with magit.
Magit has a great mix of direct manipulation of git primitives and good visualization. I think I've learned how git works faster through Magit than I would have from using the CLI. It's really hit a sweet spot for me.
I'm sure you know this, but for the benefit of other readers, pressing '$' in Magit status buffer (and likely bunch of others) pops up a buffer that lists actual commands issued to Git, so you can always check how Magit interaction maps to Git CLI commands.
