You know how when using git you have to add tons of flags to every command to make it do what a sane person would actually want? Mercurial just does what you want.
I'm going to be blunt and state that what most people want is not what they actually need. If you use Git for how it was designed, the commands remain generally pretty clean. If you come from an SVN mindset, you are probably not really using Git the way it was designed, and Mercurial fits better.
I have used (actually introduced) Mercurial before at a company and considered them basically equivalent enough, only to get stuck in some horrible design choices of early Mercurial (named branches and not having rebase by default). I am happy to see these elements corrected in Sapling, giving me enough confidence that I might actually use Sapling over time...
