The fact that Git has an extremely strong preference for storing full and complete history on every machine is a major annoyance! “Except for network IO” is not a valid excuse imho. Cloning the Linux kernel should take only a few seconds. It does not. This is slow and bad.

The mere fact that Git is unable to handle large binary files makes it an unusable tool for literally every project I have ever worked on in my entire career.

Git-lfs exists for a while now. Does that fix your issue? Or do you mean that it doesn’t support binary diffs?

Git handles large text files and large directories fairly poorly too.