What is saving these days aside from "We've bizarrely held your changes since the last time you clicked this button shaped like an antiquity aside just in case you wanted to risk losing them all by navigating away."?
Maybe something like "please force my changes to be saved to disk now, even if your autosave would not normally sync for another little while", or "please tag the version as of this moment as a relevant consistent state"? There's still merit in the idea of "saving" even now (and even before allowing for the possibility of buggy implementations of always-save).
What's git-commit aside from "We've bizarrely held your changes since the last time you ran this command via an antiquated interface just in case you wanted to risk losing them all by accidentally running rm in the wrong directory?"
Being able to screw around with things without fear of recovering not being able to recover your original content isn't an outdated concept.
