Comment by Jtsummers

Per your quote they're lamenting the (apparent) refusal to learn what it is, not master it or how to apply it. This is a perennial management problem (well, a perennial organizational problem, but exacerbated when it's the managers). I've worked in offices that were absolutely convinced source code version control meant handing off a file or document to a person who kept the diffs and everything in sync, perhaps with their exclusive use of (often) some 80s or 90s version control system that no one else was allowed to directly access. I didn't need the managers to learn git (in the sense of being able to use it) but I did need them to learn that there were much better ways than the absolutely dysfunctional approaches they were preferring (due to familiarity).