> no. read up on artifact repositories. you declare the asset version that you depend on in your a build script.

Yes, that's "essentially unsyncable" when you have thousands of assets and have to keep them synchronised by hand. It has the same sanity as considering tarballs to be a good version-control scheme.

> there pros and cons of course...

I see no pros compared to a VCS which can handle code and other assets in the same repository and keep them naturally synchronised by virtue of them being naturally synchronised.