Well I learned something from this article, and I thought I had a good handle on CI/CD, so either I am incredibly stupid and shouldn't be reading these 'nothing' articles, or maybe there is so much to learn it's impossible to know it all.

If you dont have massive repos, then this is the sort of thing that not often a big problem. Also - if you are using things like gitlab runners, you might be in the same AZ and even large repos clones are fast.

And it is impossible to know it all, I like these articles just for the differing ways people work

It sounds like GP has a bit of a chip on their shoulder when it comes to feeling like you're not worthy if you don't know everything.

Are you just an angry ex Pinterest employee? There is something to learn here and a reminder to pay more attention even when you're knee deep in other tasks. Besides the obvious feature/limitation of git that the author points out.