I agree with you. Whenever I hear someone say the words "best practice" I rewrite that in my head as "average practice". If you have a team full of idiots you probably don't want to use git anyways.
Actually, the less talented a team is, the more important I'd say VCS would be. Idiots is one thing - but mediocre programmers I'd love to have on VCS of any kind (VCS in my mind excludes things like VSS). It means that when someone blows something up, you can (at least in theory) undig the hole.
