Perhaps so, but on the other hand, many a project, some of them quite big, have been able to select a dVCS without spending a year arguing or failing into any trap.
Bad choices of X happen but, they tend to get ironed out well so when it comes time to pick an X, there's no great reason to spend too much time deliberating over it.There's a difference between "not [...] to spend too much time" and not spending time at all.
(Maybe, though, it is about time for a new task list and "vision sketch" of a complete GNU. For example, an effort could be made to assemble a candidate FSF/GNU distribution with the expectation that the effort will fail, but will yield a list of what work remains to be done.)That would be interesting.
Juanma