[tails4e]

Version control aside, Vivado is very good at what its intended to do, take RTL and synthesize, place and route, STA, and simulate it all in one tool. With plenty of higher level abstractions like IPI, etc. It's really good at visualisation and cross probing. I use it to check my ASIC RTL designs as it's better than the (way) more expensive ASIC tools. All sources needed to rebild a project are refered to in the .xpr project file. Project rebuilds are completely scriptable, it's really not thst opaque.