Mercurial later added bookmarks which work like Git branches. These make more sense to me as well.
Did bookmarks moved as you made commits, like a branch pointer in git does?
Yup: https://mercurial-scm.org/help/commands/bookmarks
Did bookmarks moved as you made commits, like a branch pointer in git does?
Yup: https://mercurial-scm.org/help/commands/bookmarks