It's actually super powerful and useful for simple one-off encodes or complex batch processes. I have worked for clients who required an end-to-end transcoding

It's actually super powerful and useful for simple one-off encodes or complex batch processes. I have worked for clients who required an end-to-end transcoding pipeline (ABR) with packaging, subtitles, multiple-audio, etc. and it took a 100 line shell script to get everything done.