Howdy!
The main reasons I recommend people not use it is:
- that folks who are not git-savvy try to use it and get stuck in can’t-even-push-my-repo configurations. (the git config is a bit intense, but you’ve clearly done your reading and if you feel comfortable using git LFS anyway, this is probably not you :))
- that the benefits for folks who don’t use the transformations are slim to none. You can use LFS on your own without the service, to speed up clones here and locally.
- in case you don’t like it, we have to help you turn it off, and we may not see your request quickly to do so.
If you need the transformations and are comfortable writing code to use them, and can successfully set up LFS yourself, it makes a lot of sense.
If any of those conditions aren’t true, you might not get much value out of it.