I much prefer Nerdbank Git Versioning (NBGV): https://github.com/dotnet/Nerdbank.GitVersioning

It allows repeatable builds because it uses the "git height" as the increment source.

This is an implicitly updated value that is centrally coordinated, but isn't a separate system. If you have Git, you have a Git commit history, and hence an incrementing counter.

NBGV can stamp binary outputs such as .NET EXEs and DLLs, generates compile-time sources with version strings, works with Node.js projects as well, and integrates with Azure DevOps pipelines automatically.