[jayd16]

When I see this done, it ends up causing headaches as well. You now have to deal with a second authentication flow that is usually a lot more opaque. I work in games with less technical people such as artists. Bootstrapping their workspace is an effort. "Setup your maven credentials" might as well be ancient latin.

Submodules aren't ideal but I do prefer that you can pull down everything you need in a one liner instead of multi-stage pull, build, auth, download, build etc.

So I wouldn't say its better in every respect.