Agreed. Haven’t yet found a use case that isn’t better handled by either build tools or “don’t do that”

Nice, came here to dunk on submodules, and find there’s no need.

This is one of the things Josh Strife-Hayes pulls games up on. Making people learn things the hard way is one thing, but when they’ve learned it, it has to be something they can then trust in future. Learning a thing and applying it is a game; learning a thing and finding it’s not actually a thing half the time is frustration.