Submodules are the feature you discover someone pulled in when things don't work, and after a bit of digging, you realize it's because the submodule wasn't init

Submodules are the feature you discover someone pulled in when things don't work, and after a bit of digging, you realize it's because the submodule wasn't initialized, and it didn't say so anywhere. I suspect the opposition to submodules comes from the poor (manual) integration. As someone suggested in another thread, they ought to auto-recurse by default. But I don't think that's going to happen, either. Maybe something like direnv where it tells you about the unloaded submodule once you enter the repository. Except that won't work for IDEs.