For us, the biggest benefit of reproducible builds is debuggability. One year later, if we get a bug report from a customer, we can fully recreate the issue in

For us, the biggest benefit of reproducible builds is debuggability. One year later, if we get a bug report from a customer, we can fully recreate the issue in house, patch it, and provide a new build with confidence that we fixed the problem. Without this, in a huge interconnected system you go insane trying to control all the variables needed to figure out what exactly went wrong.