it claims to also be designed for developers. It also claims to be for code.

Yes, it claims to be for developers of games and other “projects with large binary assets”. Of which Lore isn’t an example of, so it would be the wrong tool for the job. So I’m still puzzled why you’d expect them to use it.

This just leads me to believe it sucks

I’m sure it sucks, for all the reasons your listed. Them using git is not one of them.