Your last point is a good one, but it's sort of like arguing over gentoo/ubuntu/centOS. At the end of the day who really cares - none of them are windows, so they're all good enough.
That would make sense if we were talking about Git/Mercurial/Darcs/Bazaar opposite SVN, but in the context of SVN and Git, not so much. SVN is much, much closer to CVS than to Git.