youll find plenty of reasons and justifications in the wider world of industries software engineering touches. Look at butbucket, microsoft (sourcesafe and then

youll find plenty of reasons and justifications in the wider world of industries software engineering touches. Look at butbucket, microsoft (sourcesafe and then they bought out all of github), perforce, rational, bitkeeper, etc. All it really takes is some investor pressure or a bright idea that they could chase some large enterprise sales money, and then youll see more optimizations in that direction. Sometimes they're useful, like in cases where theres features that are important and even critical for medium-large enterprise usecases, but most people find boring to develop for. The risk comes, IMO, if you dilute the core product value while chasing those objectives.