At the same time text is to narrow a category to cover many project needs. There are lots of projects where needing manage and version GBs of various binary dat

At the same time text is to narrow a category to cover many project needs. There are lots of projects where needing manage and version GBs of various binary data is vital. Git defaulting everything being plain text will miss out a lot of special cases where are more specialised tool might help, but on the whole is probably a good balance and 'good enough' for the vast majority of use cases.