These arguments against reproducible builds are very provincial, temporally. Which is to say, they assume a user now downloading source now to compile and use

These arguments against reproducible builds are very provincial, temporally. Which is to say, they assume a user now downloading source now to compile and use now. One of the things I like about reproducibility is that someday, in the future, when the project is closed and the website is down and the author is dead ... we can take the source code and compile it and compare it to our own notes (or to the wayback machine, or whatever) of the checksums, etc., of the binaries and gain some confidence that we have what we think we have.