It’s just a tough spot to be in: libgit2 has always worked a bit differently than the binaries, gix is incomplete. Ideally gix will be good enough that it could just be used, but things aren’t there yet.
Yeah, completely understood. I've suffered from related SSH issues, so I get the motivation. I suppose it's just unfortunate that the supporting libraries aren't quite there yet.
This kind of thing is why jj started with a strong library vs binary split; folks will be able to use the library and have full compatibility with other tools.