There’s also an argument for having every exclusion centralised in one config file (ie gitignore) with regards to making it easier to review what exclusions are

There’s also an argument for having every exclusion centralised in one config file (ie gitignore) with regards to making it easier to review what exclusions are active. As a DevOps guy (but with 30 years of experience in development too), one of my pet peeves is having to deal with a thousand different edge cases because someone decided that intellectual cleverness was more important than a holistic approach to design and architecture.