My impression of this opposition (and hate) is that people don't read the docs and expect submodules to bend to their vision of how submodules should work. Beca

My impression of this opposition (and hate) is that people don't read the docs and expect submodules to bend to their vision of how submodules should work. Because of that, we have multiple similar but not the same "submodule" implementations: git-submodule, git-subtree, git-subrepo...