My perspective: Jenkins f...ing sucks. For the reasons you delineate. To me it's a pile of side-effects which pretend not to know obvious things. As a countere

My perspective: Jenkins f...ing sucks. For the reasons you delineate. To me it's a pile of side-effects which pretend not to know obvious things. As a counterexample I present Jetbrains' TeamCity (if running a build server yourself is necessary).