For your criticism regarding reproducible builds, I'm not sure it's entirely correct. The impression I got from a skim was that version control metadata was bei

For your criticism regarding reproducible builds, I'm not sure it's entirely correct. The impression I got from a skim was that version control metadata was being embedded, such as the git commit hash or maybe a tag. Both of which are static within the constraints that builds are generally reproducible across. However, if it includes timestamps or some generated metadata, then I wholeheartedly agree with your concerns.