Author of the post here.

I think Git upstream is trying to simplify configuration. They have a config option called `features.manyFiles` which enables most of the features we enabled for our developers (https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config#Documentation/git-config...).

We wanted to use this instead of deploying a wrapper, but it turns out that some of Git's features like fsmonitor do not interact well with repositories with submodules (there were Git crashes). And we have some developers that work on repositories with submodules. So we needed something more flexible, like enabling these features only on particular repositories.