I couldn’t agree more. Once you’ve learned how to set it up it’s a breeze. I’ve been using it in production for over a year now, hosting the engine source code, dependencies, and my project all in one repository on the free Microsoft Azure DevOps unlimited LFS storage. My project is over 500GB and the builds are 100% reproducible after cloning the repository.
Here is an article and the script I’ve developed specifically for this.